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Best Gifts for Gardeners: Chile Seeds

February 14, 2018

Today is Valentine's Day, so here'a little love poem:

Roses are red
Violets are blue
Chiles are green & red ...

l bet you were expecting something romantic...
but nope, these are just gardening facts.

Pepper seeds make the BEST Valentine's Day gifts for the special gardener in your life. Keep it spicy with our super hot pepper seeds, or get sweet with our sweet pepper seeds. Or, if you and your love crave New Mexican Hatch Green Chile as much as we do, make sure to check out our Hatch chile seeds. We also have precious Heirloom tomato seeds that are sure to please!

If you're not sure which seeds to get,
a Sandia Seed Gift Card is also a perfect gift!

Seeds are a great gift as they are the gift of a bountiful harvest that can be shared and enjoyed in recipes all summer long. Peppers are super easy to grow, and are quite beautiful, too! (see our Pepper Plants are Beautiful blog post!) Chile peppers add lots of flavor and spice to any dish.

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from 1271 reviews

Big Jim!

Very productive plants even up here in New England!

Greg M

01/15/2025

Hatch Green Medium - Big Jim Chile Seeds

Grew these in MI, zone 5a.

Plants were quite bushy and full of peppers. Great flavor. Made a wonderful little Ristra with some of the later harvested peppers. Will continue to grow these yearly.

MrsG

Chimayo Chile Seeds

Beautiful and hot!

These plants were super healthy all season long and produced a LOT of fruit. They'll add heat and color to any dish. They made my cowboy candy and pickled jalapeños extra special!

Cheryl F

01/14/2025

Jalapeño Lemon Spice NuMex Seeds

Super delicious Scotch Bonnets!

Very good germination rate and super abundant and delicious peppers!. I had them in 10g and 5g fabric pots and they very well the last two years. Amazing to smoke and dry / freeze to have throughout the year! I just made a spicy brown porter mustard with scotch bonnets! Also made an amazing roasted scotch bonnet hot sauce! yum!

Brian

Scotch Bonnet Orange Pepper Seeds

A flavorful Hatch

These Hatch Chiles are flavorful with a good amount of heat! Each plant produced a good amount of peppers! I will be growing these again!

Jeffrey K.

Hatch Green X Hot - Lumbre Chile Seeds

Get these every year

These grow large. We roast them and peel them and make green chile from them. My husband adores them.
Made Chili Mac for my Step son and he ate it all in one sitting.
I plant 10 plants every year.

Rosie Knight

Beautiful & Spicy

These are definitely ornamental, they add a nice touch of color to your garden.. and they are spicy too!

Easter Ornamental NuMex Pepper Seeds

Cute pepper plant

Grew the purple jalapenos last summer. Slow to get going, but ended up with a nice compact bush in a pot. I am trying to overwinter them by bringing the.pot inside for the winter. It is still growing, small purple peppers about 1" long.

Inese Gravs

Jalapeño Purple Pepper Seeds

Perfect for green chile

These germinated and grew beautifully, was happy to use them to create the delicious green chile of my home but in a new country!

Autumn

Must have Mexico Midgets

Every spring it's my mission to introduce our community to Sandia Seed Companies Mexico Midget Tomatoes! This our the perfect variety to grow in boxes and grow abundantly to feed as many of my neighbors as possible. Thank you for your Amazing Varieties!

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Mexico Midget Tomato Seeds

Late producer

This tomato just kept producing when other big tomatoes stopped. I had late fall tomatoes fresh out of the garden into October. The color in a salad can’t be matched.

Molly O’Malley

Berkeley Tie-Dye Tomato Seeds

Excellent

Excellent germination, heat level and flavor. After living where Hatch chilis were a part of our every day, I’m glad to grow them in Idaho!

Juli Bokenkamp

01/13/2025

Great Flavor and Heat - Will grow every year

This is a beautiful and prolific pepper. The flavor is great and the heat, on a scale of 1-10, i would say is a 6. Not too hot but hot enough to impart the right amount of heat your whatever your cooking. I will definitely grow these every year!

Colleen M

Cow Horn Hot Pepper Seeds

LOVE THEM!

Unusual because they grow upward! They did really well in containers in my greenhouse in Nova Scotia, Canada. I started out growing Hatch chiles because I'm from Colorado and SO miss Hatch roasted,but these taste great so I'll order more this year.

Linda Titus

01/12/2025

Mirasol Mosco Pueblo Chile Seeds

Surprisingly productive

Bought seeds last year(2024). Started early indoors with heat mat. Didn't have high expectations as I live in northern Michigan. I had to wait til June to out outside, but once established they took off. I had 4 plants and received 50-60 peppers. It wasn't the best summer for hot weather plants, but the seedlings were strong and resilient. They kept right on producing until frost. I waited until they turned color to pick the first batch. Once I picked, the plant went crazy, producing tons of peppers. Some I was able to harvest and some didn't get the chance to mature. I will definitely be planting again!

Dawn G

01/07/2025

Guajillo Chile Seeds

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Roses are red Violets are blue Chiles are green & red ... l bet you were expecting something romantic... but nope, these are just gardening facts.

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Roses are red
Violets are blue
Chiles are green & red ...

l bet you were expecting something romantic...
but nope, these are just gardening facts.