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.
Tomatoes are tops in home vegetable gardens. But we can plant a feast of crops late winter and spring. Sow or set out transplants in a sunny spot with compost-enriched, well-draining soil: Beans, lima and snap bush, seed: March-April. Beans, lima and snap pole, seed: March. Beets, seed: February. Broccoli, plant: mid January-late February.