Since Butser data sets for all three ways of growing it and outcomes, Pliny and M Varro and Columella were not enough, ill add in 2 more.
Virgil tells us that Emmer is planted after the setting of the pleiades, which ocurs in November.
Hesiod* in his Works and Days, 383 to 384. The setting of the Pleiades in the west at dawn marked the time to plow and sow; and the grain harvest commenced once the Pleiades had risen in the east at dawn, Pleiades rise in May.
*Begin your harvest when the pleiades rise, your ploughing when they set".
Virgil tells us that Emmer is planted after the setting of the pleiades, which ocurs in November.
Hesiod* in his Works and Days, 383 to 384. The setting of the Pleiades in the west at dawn marked the time to plow and sow; and the grain harvest commenced once the Pleiades had risen in the east at dawn, Pleiades rise in May.
*Begin your harvest when the pleiades rise, your ploughing when they set".
