Kilayim 4:9 - 5:1

הנוטע את כרמו ט"ז אמה – that each row of vines is distant from its neighbor by sixteen cubits.

מותר להביא זרע לשם – and it is not necessary to distance other than six handbreadths from the row, like the tilling of an individual vine.

צלמון – name of a place.

הופך שער שתי שורות – it was a large vineyard that each row was sixteen cubits distant from its neighbor, and he did not want to intertwine his vine on top of his grain, and he would combine the rows two by two, and the heads of the vines, that is the branches of the two rows, he would turn them towards one side, these over the others, and there would remain the free space from this side and from that side, and he would sow but that he would leave six handbreadths, and in the next year they would do the opposite for such was their practice in a place where they sow in it from one year to the next year, they leave it uncultivated without blowing and without sowing.

אף הנוטע את כרמו של שמנה שמנה אמות מותר – for they (Rabbi Meir and Rabbi Shimon) hold that the rows are distant at intervals of eight cubits each, it is like an individual vine, and he leaves near the row six handbreadths and plants the rest, and we don’t require sixteen cubits other than in a vineyard laid waste, but when he plants from the outset, when he distances it eight cubits, it is enough. And such is the Halakha.

כרם שחרב. עשר גפנים לבית סאה – that there are in the ground of a Bet Seah (i.e., 50 cubits by 50 cubits) ten vines, no fewer from this.

ונטועות כהלכתן – that is two opposite two and one produces a tail, and they are not distant from each other sixteen cubits but not less than four cubits.

כרם דל (sparsely planted vineyard)- that its vines are few but nevertheless it has the law of a vineyard [applying to it]. But this is not a razed portion of a vineyard, for that part laid waste is from its middle, and this one is laid waste from every side.

ערבוביא (in an irregular manner) – that the vines are not corresponding like a line.

אם יכול לכוין – in all of the vineyard two corresponding to three, as for example that he would bring a thread and trains it and he finds the stem/shoot corresponding two corresponding to two and one extends as a tail but the bough is not corresponding, behold this is a vineyard. But, if he finds the bough corresponding and the stem/shoot does not correspond, it is not a vineyard.

כתבנית כרמים הרי זה כרם – and it requires distancing sixteen cubits. But the Halakha is not according to Rabbi Meir.