3,089. Draping Vines Over a Raised Platform

Hilchos Kilayim 8:1

Vines that grow naturally, with their branches and clusters on the ground, are called a vineyard. If someone makes something like a bed or a platform over the ground for the clusters and branches to grow over, and he raised the vines from the ground and draped them over that platform, it’s called a “cradle.” The branches of which the platform was made and on which the vine rest are called “frames.” A “cradle” has different rules.

Hilchos Kilayim 8:2

If someone plants a row of five or more vines and he drapes them over a wall ten handbreadths tall (about 30”) or something similar, or if he plants them on the side of a ditch ten handbreadths deep by four handbreadths wide (about 12”), they are considered a “cradle.” One must distance four cubits (about six feet) from “cradle” to plant, the same as one must do in a vineyard.