Abstract: A seedling planter comprising a planting tube provided with a handle and having on its lower end a crown which produces in the soil a planting hole, this crown comprising on the continuation of the planting tube a stationary jaw tapering in wedge fashion towards its tip and having a cross sectional shape conforming to that of the planting tube, and to the lateral margins of this jaw having been affixed pivot pins located in the vertical plane passing through the planting tube's centre-line, on these pivot pins being turnably carried a moving jaw, likewise tapering in wedge fashion in its tip portion, and a yoke lever with U-shaped legs, to the bow part of which has been affixed a pedal lever located on one side of the planting tube, by depressing which the jaw can be made to assume its opened, planting position, in which it is securable with a locking device comprising, affixed to the stationary jaw on the side opposite to the pedal lever, a substantially vertical elastic metal wire provided with two bends sp