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.
It has been quite a cold winter, but it is time to get ready for the spring Houston vegetable garden. I planted tomatoes under the grow light on January 2. Varieties this year: Merced, Celebrity, Sweet Treat, Juliet and Blonde Kopfchen. I got some Orange Paruche seed but forgot to plant them.