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.
Examples include sweet peppers, watermelon, eggplant, leeks, celery and tomatoes. Plant cool-weather vegetables---such as broccoli, spinach, asparagus and cauliflower---in early spring as they do not do well in warmer temperatures, according to the Encyclopedia of Gardening from the American Horticultural Society.fter the last frost of the year, transplant any vegetables started from seed into the garden. Plant tomatoes, sweet corn, okra, onion, scallions, beets as well as cucumbers and winter and summer squash directly into the garden.