Jack Dillard: Look to the Calendar for Fall Weather Dictation

By Jack Dillard, The Times, Shreveport

If we have not had a rain by the time you are reading this column on Oct. 1, the Ark-La-Tex is a week dryer than last week. When the weather dictates one action with our plants and landscape, and the calendar indicates another action … in the fall of the year, follow the calendar.