Hatch Red Medium - Joe E. Parker Chile Seeds - Popular Heirloom with Great Flavor

I grew these up in northern Illinois and they were fantastic low-effort plants that pumped out buckets of peppers right alongside my tomatoes. Green is classic for these Hatch-style peppers, but the red color is beautiful and makes for a wonderful red salsa when combined with red habaneros and black poblanos.

You can pick them when they're green, of course, they turn red after getting to full size so I only let a portion of them get fully mature and change color. Hard to go wrong with any of the Joe Parker varieties, but this one was a fantastic multipurpose pepper.

Love this Hatch variety chili, next best thing to living in New Mexico! Yep, they grow in Oklahoma too!

Germination was great on these. They grew very well in my garden, and each plant produced a very good yield of peppers. I will definitely grow these again!

These had no problem germinating at all. I didn't even have to start them inside. They produce a large amount on each plant! I highly recommend.

These are excellent for roasting. The flavor is excellent with just the right hint of heat, enough to be interesting but not too much for the pepper novice. As usual with Sandia seeds germination was easy. The plant (I generally grow one each of several varieties) was nice and vigorous and productive in a 5 gal. felt pot. This one is definitely on the list for next year.

They’ve started germinating ,inside, on heating pads.Thanks.

Haven't planted yet but am sure I will enjoy finished product

Seeds did great, grew into robust plants with giant red chile pods! Delicious.

It's hard to find red chile that isn't dried, so growing it is the only way to taste this exceptional flavor. I used to live in New Mexico so could get some of these fresh, but now that I'm in New York it's nowhere to be found, so growing it in my veggie garden is the only way we can taste the sweet buttery deliciousness that is fresh red chile! We simply roast it on our gas grill to char the skins, then cool in a glass dish with lid, peel, and enjoy! The red chile meat is heavenly and great on pizza, sandwiches, wraps, you name it. Thank you for offering these precious seeds, it is so wonderful to be able to grow them in our garden!

These are delicious, especially when roasted the same day after picking - their creamy, smokey, tasty flesh is extremely addicting. You can't grow enough of them!