Nuisances and Hazards to Health (604)

Chapter 26

Plants and Trees

6.a. It is permissible to urinate on growing grass or other relieving vegetation, but

6.b. one must not relieve one’s bowels in a ploughed field which is about to be sown and

6.c. one should take care not to spit on growing vegetation.

7.a. If the outlet pipe of a sink or basin carries the water away until it is discharged over sown ground, one may, nonetheless, wash one’s hands in it or pour water into it on Shabbath.

7.b. One need not worry about the watering of the seeds which will be brought about thereby, providing this consequence is unintended.

7.c. See also Chapter 12, paragraph 18.