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.
Plant Now For Fall Vegetables. Yes those are pole beans that were planted on June 24th and the picture was taken 5 days latter. The fact is that now is the perfect time to start planting to harvest vegetables in September. Yes I know it must sound strange to a lot of people that I am talking about planting vegetables on the 4th of July but really it is not. Many people feel like they must have their gardens in by Memorial Day and then it is time to wait and harvest everything and put the garden to bed.