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שבת 85:2

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— It is a preventive measure, lest he fill up the corners. Yet let it not be other than a triangular plot  of vegetables? Did we not learn, If a triangular plot of vegetables enters another field,  this is permitted, because it is evidently the end of a field?  — [The permissibility of] a triangular plot does not apply to a seed-bed. But Samuel maintained: We learnt of a seed-bed in the midst of [other] seed-beds. But they intermingle? — He inclines one strip in one direction and one strip in another direction, 'Ulla said: They asked in the West [Palestine]: What if a person draws one furrow across the whole?  R. Shesheth maintained: The intermingling comes and annuls the strips.  R. Assi said: The intermingling does not annul the strips. Rabina raised an objection to R. Ashi: If one plants two rows of cucumbers, two rows of gourds, and two rows of Egyptian beans, they are permitted;  one row of cucumbers, one row of gourds and one of Egyptian beans, they are forbidden?  — Here it is different, because there is entanglement. R. Kahana said in R. Johanan's name: If one desires to fill his whole garden with vegetables,  he can divide it into  bed[s] six [handbreadths] square, describe in each a circle five [handbreadths in diameter], and fill its corners with whatever he pleases.  But there is the [space] between [the beds]?  — Said the School of R. Jannai: He leaves the interspaces waste.  R. Ashi said: If they [the beds] are sown in the length, he sows them [the interspaces] in the breadth, and vice versa.  Rabina objected to R. Ashi: The planting  of one vegetable with another [requires] six handbreadths [square],  and they are regarded                                              ʰʲˡ