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.
University of Mississippi Extension recommends planting sweet peas in prepared beds in January . February is the time to start cool weather vegetables, including broccoli, onion, collards, cauliflower, beets and radishes, in seed frames for later transplant to the garden. Asparagus can be planted outside in February. In March, start the seeds for tomatoes and eggplant in seed boxes and plant sweet peas outside.