So, as a life long BOC fan and an avid gardener who loves the quality of seeds I’ve always received from Sandia Seeds. I just had to have this shirt. It rocks! I ordered a couple more for some fellow BOC fans as well. Great quality and the graphic is outstanding!
I bought this seeds because this is the kind of peppers used in Peru to prepare ceviche.
Received September 22. Seeded some weeks later. Full sun. I didn't watered, just the Central Florida rain. The plants are a tolerating the winter temperatures and heavy rain. I transplanted 1 for my beloved best friend (she's Peruvian ❤️❤️❤️) to a smaller pot and left it in same place and survived.
Take a look of the dates at the photos to appreciate how fast they have grown.
Wow, these are HOT!! Very productive plants, one of the earliest peppers to have pods on the plant. I also picked some of them green and they are still nice and hot when green. Perfect in salsa, or for spicy poppers. If you are tired of mild jalapenos, this one's for you! I love them. My husband, who've I turned into a lover of all things spicy, will even try a popper or two of these along with our milder regular early Jalapenos and Jalapeno Jaloro which we also grow. The Jaloros are fun as they start out in pale yellow from the get-go, whereas these Lemon Spice are the usual Jalapeno green before they turn to bright yellow. I love that you have so many varieties of jalapenos, we'll like to grow them all over the years.
I absolutely adore this parsley variety for its bright classic parsley flavor and how effortlessly it grows. It’s so productive that I can harvest it several times in a single season, and it just keeps coming back. The plants are strong and beautiful so they make a great companion plants with my flowers and other veggies. The dark green leaves are incredibly flavorful. I like to put it in a food processor and freeze it in ice cube trays to add some fresh parsley flavor all winter long. It grows beautifully both in containers and in the ground, adapting so well that it feels almost unstoppable. It is a biennial – so it blooms the second season but the pollinators love it so I leave it bee. I'm hoping it will reseed on it's own as I can never have enough parsley. I particularly like to add it to bean salads (chickpeas, tomatoes, parsley, garlic, green onions, lemon juice, olive oil, and throw in a couple chopped peppers to make a delicious fresh-tasting side dish!)
I love giving this seed catalog to my gardening friends. Most gardeners have grown a couple pepper varieties like standard bells, so when they see this catalog with over 100 different kinds of peppers, their eyes light up! So many to choose from! I love some of the specialty sweet peppers myself, but also grow some of the hot peppers like Habaneros and of course a few varieties of jalapenos - I love the yellow spice jalapeno, so HOT and pretty! This seed catalog, paired with a seed gift card, becomes the perfect gift – the gardener can circle their dream varieties in the catalog and then use the card to order exactly those seeds. Nothing better than sharing the love of chile with the world!
Now I'm returning the favor and gifting this wonderful food garden seed set to my Mom! I grew a very productive vegetable garden this year in my backyard and at my community garden. On our patio I grew in some containers, too – I had a dill pot, a carrot pot, a cilantro pot. I love that this set comes with marigolds, the seeds were so easy to direct sow and grew into beautiful plants that really seemed to help the tomatoes grow healthy and large – plus they were so pretty, too! I didn't realize they were edible, so I was happy to learn that you can sprinkle the blossoms into salads and soups, so I tried that too, it's fun to add a burst of color! The little gem lettuce was exceptional, sweet and crunchy and was also easy to direct sow. I also planted a three-sister garden bed, and grew the pole beans up the corn and had green beans coming out my ears, plus ears of corn, too, while the zukes grew happily at the base. It was fun to grow new vegetables that I haven't grown before, so this was the perfect gift to get me trying new things. The cayenne peppers were productive, and paired perfectly with the Rio Grande tomatoes and cilantro to make a delicious pico-de-gallo. I grew the sugar snap peas in the spring and fall and they were good eating right in the garden. I think the more varieties of veggies you grow the more success you have... and it extends the harvest season so we were eating fresh veggies all season long.
Sandia Seed’s catalog is a pepper-centric seed catalog that doubles as a lightweight growing guide and recipe book! If your main interest is chiles and productive tomatoes, this is your catalog! It's particularly appealing if you want New Mexico–style Hatch chiles, which is how I found Sandia Seed in the first place.
I'm going to order one for my husband. Love the soft fabric on these, and I've been wearing it for a couple years now without it getting ratty. Great quality and I love the graphic!
Love these special little delicious cherry peppers! I like to stuff these with cream cheese and then put them under the broiler or on the grill to roast them for appetizers (or I've also used vegan brie cheese from Rebel Cheese that works great, too!)
First time ordering from Sandia Seed, all the pepper seeds did great. I have ordered these seeds from other seed companies but the had poor germination, so I was happy to find Sandia. Out of the eight seeds i planted in my old aerogarden seed starter tray, seven sprouted. The plants were productive, lots of sweety drops that were excellent pickled.
Love Aji peppers, so was hapy to find this red variety. Great for hot sauces and pico de gallo. Quality seeds, good germination and very productive plants.
This was one of the earliest chiles to harvest for me this season – nice big pods, delicious when roasted. I'm going to grow these every season on!
I just bought another packet of your carolina reaper seeds – last year when I got around to it you were out of stock so I'm glad to see they're back in! Your seeds have been much better for me than any I've grown from other seed companies. They have quite high germination for a super hot pepper, and they grow healthy and true to seed. They are also the best priced reaper seeds I've seen. Thanks for offering these every season! This year I decided to order early.
We had 100% germination of these carrot peppers this year and they don’t disappoint. They survived the cold until the beginning of November in US zone 7A. The heat was great, a good spice that doesn’t burn your tongue off in any dish and great fruity flavor. There are 2 things to keep in mind when growing these:
1. The plants are small. So make sure to grow enough of them if you like spice.
2. The peppers loose their flavor fast when picked. Within 2 days of picking the flavor is about half as good because they dry out quickly.
I got my seed catalog in the mail today.... How in the world am I going to be able to choose which peppers to grow? They all sound AMAZING! Love all the pics and recipes too. Two thumbs way up.
😆 my new favorite seed catalogue. Soooo many peppers to read and dream about. It's awesome you have the short season peppers and tomatoes marked, I am in a very short growing zone and it's hard to grow varieties that need longer than 70 days as we often get early frosts come September for the past several years. keeping this one on my kitchen table to plot all winter long about which peppers to grow next season. Narrowing down the 100 peppers to 20 or so will be difficult. Wish my garden was bigger!
I love it!! So many beautiful pictures of peppers and some fantastic recipes and tips for growing peppers. This one is a keeper.
These are four perfect jalapeño varieties... the seeds germinated quickly and grew into robust plants that provided tons of pods for poppers and salsas. The Lemon Spice was my personal favorite as it has a lot of heat, but the other three were great too. Delicious!
There are so many ways to enjoy Shishitos, but my favorite is just to pan fry them whole with some garlic and olive oil. We gobble them up, stems and all.
Adoro esse pimento fica bonito na salada ate como ao lanche
Isto e riduculisimo hahahahaha so meti 5 estrelas de rir
Yum na minha salada fica bem especialmente se levar assim anchovas ou peixe fumado
Eu adoro esse pimento eu vi nao e picante mas e doce perfeito para uma pessoa apreciadora de pimentos como eu
While I have had great luck growing Goat Horns and other peppers I have yet to have any Pequin seeds produce any peppers for me. They are native here so I don't understand why they grow well until about a foot tall and then just stay green and produce no flowers or peppers. This was my third try. I have purchased nursery plants and they do well but not the seeds.
This season and last I also have purchased seeds for both myself and my son and neither of us have had any luck at all with Pequins. All the other seedlings thrive.
Pequin pepper plants are naturally slow growers, they typically take 3 months (between 90 to 130 days) to start producing. The lack of fruit after two months is often normal. Pequins require a long growing season, the plants may not even start producing until late summer or even fall, with the peppers themselves taking time to ripen to their mature red color. Also, make sure they don't have too much nitrogen fertilizer, which will result in lots of leaves but no blooms or pods, especially later in the season. Weather can also play a factor, cold weather and hot weather over 90˚ F can cause plants to drop blooms and not develop pods.
Our advice: start these pepper seeds extra early indoors, about 12+ weeks before spring planting, and keep potting the seedlings up so that you have a nice sized plant and rootball to transplant come spring. Wait to transplant outside until it's consistently 50˚F at night and after all chance of cold weather has passed. You can also grow Pequin plants in a large pot so that you can move it indoors in the fall if you have a shorter season and frost comes early before the plant has had a chance to produce or ripen pods. Growing Pequins from seed is best for gardeners who have long growing seasons in the south, or those who start growing them extra-early indoors for a much longer period, some people even grow them in pots year-round and bring them indoors during cold weather to protect them from frost. Nursery greenhouse-grown Pequins are also good for short seasons as they've been growing for a long time before you get them, and they have nice sized roots and plant size for a head-start in the spring.
You may also just decide to grow shorter season peppers, which are much more likely to have produced pods after 2 months of growing. We have a great selection of short season peppers in all shapes, colors, sizes and heat levels to choose from.
