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.
Quick-maturing vegetable crops for your garden are ready to harvest about two months -- or sooner -- after you plant them. Many of the quicker-maturing crops are considered cool-season vegetables, although a few are summer varieties. Snap bean varieties, including Blue Lake, Derby, Cherokee Wax and Gold Crop all take between 50 and 60 days to mature for harvest.