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Rather, Rav’s reasoning must be: It is a decree lest one will fill the corners after having first planted the garden bed, and thereby violate the prohibition of diverse kinds. The Talmud asks: And why should that matter, the legal status of the garden bed should merely be like a triangular [rosh tor
And Shmuel said: When we learned in the Mishnah that one may plant 5 kinds of seeds within a garden bed without violating the prohibition of diverse kinds, we learned this even with regard to a garden bed among garden beds, not only in a solitary bed. The Talmud asks: Don’t the seeds become interm
Ulla said: They raise a dilemma in the West, Eretz Yisrael: What is the halakha if one opened a single furrow across its entirety? Is it considered demarcation between the garden beds if one dug a furrow between two garden beds (ge’onim, Tosafot)? Rav Sheshet said: The intermingling of these gard
Rav Kahana said that R' Yoḥanan said: One who wishes to fill his entire garden with vegetables and does not want to distance the rows of seeds from one another may make a garden bed that is 6 by 6 handbreadths and make 5 circles inside it (ge’onim, Rambam). He plants different species in the differe
The Talmud asks: Aren’t there seeds between the circles, which intermingle with the species that are in the circles? The school of R' Yannai say in response to this: This is referring to a case where one leaves the space in between them barren and does not plant there. Rav Ashi said: He may fill th