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.
Legumes can be planted into fescue and cool-season grass sods during fall or in late winter. âPlanting in late winter -- February to early March -- is sometimes called âfrost-seedingâ because freezing and thawing of soil helps work the legume seed into the soil surface,â he said. Good clover stands can be established with a no-till drill or by broadcast seeding.