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.
August 17, 2016. With August quickly waning and your garden stressed from the summer drought, you might not be thinking about plantingâbut now is actually a great time to plant new vegetables for a fall harvest. As the loss of daylight continues, the soil remains warm, but itâs easier to get seeds to germinate.