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.
1st Start seedbeds and flower gardens. Best planting day for fall potatoes, turnips, onions, carrots, beets, and other root crops where climate is suitable. 2nd-6th Grub out weeds, briars, and other plant pests. 7th-8th Favorable time for sowing grains, hay, and fodder crops.Plant flowers now.Favorable days for planting root crops.st Start seedbeds and flower gardens. Best planting day for fall potatoes, turnips, onions, carrots, beets, and other root crops where climate is suitable. 2nd-6th Grub out weeds, briars, and other plant pests. 7th-8th Favorable time for sowing grains, hay, and fodder crops.