Commentary for Niddah 99:41

עולשין שזרען מתחילה לבהמה ונמלך עליהן לאדם

whereas 'is all harvested at the same time<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Which would have excluded the fig-tree and the like. ');">³⁶</span> and is taken in for storage'<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Which would have excluded vegetables. ');">³⁷</span> was not mentioned.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' It thus follows that figs and vegetables are liable to tithes though exempt from pe'ah. The tithe mentioned is, of course, only Rabbinical, since Pentateuchally only corn, wine and oil are subject to the obligations of tithe. ');">³⁸</span> But if garlic or onions<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Vegetables that are taken in for storage. ');">³⁹</span> grew among them<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The other vegetables. ');">⁴⁰</span> they are subject [to <i>pe'ah</i>]. For we have learnt: As regards plots of onions between other vegetables, R. Jose ruled, <i>Pe'ah</i> must be left from each<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Since the other vegetables form a division between one plot and another. ');">⁴¹</span> and the Sages ruled, From one for all.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The intervening vegetables being disregarded, Pe'ah III, 4. ');">⁴²</span> Rabbah b. Bar Hana citing R. Johanan ruled: If endives were originally sown for cattle-food and then [the owner] changed his mind<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' While they were still attached to the ground. ');">⁴³</span> to use them for human food,

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