The Chihuahuan Desert, long a corridor for trade between Mexico City and Santa Fe, New Mexico, is now home to five million people. The Rio Grande basin covers 172,000 square miles, crossing three U.S. states, more than a dozen Native American nations and five Mexican states.
Plant Answers. PLANT: March is a month to plant the gardener's favorite vegetables such as tomatoes, sweet corn and snap beans and pepper as well as cucumbers, lima or butter beans, cantaloupe, okra (if the soil has warmed sufficiently --70 degrees F. or higher), southern peas, pumpkin, squash, peanuts and watermelon.
Perhaps you will plant beets, carrots, green onions, Chinese cabbage, broccoli, and cabbage cousins, such a cauliflower and kohlrabi. Plant in late summer for fall harvest; in Zones 8-10, plant these crops as late as December. These vegetables can handle light frost, which actually makes them sweeter. The hardiest fall vegetables -- spinach and kale -- often grow well into early winter.