Abstract: A planting device for planting of plants includes a frame to be mounted on a traction vehicle. A support arm, carrying a planting assembly, extends backwards in parallel with the direction of movement of the traction vehicle and is mounted by the frame for movement along a path extending upwardly and forwardly toward the vehicle from a lowered planting position to a raised position. This mounting arrangement permits the support arm and the planting assembly to rise to avoid obstacles in the ground.

Abstract: A method for feeding plant cells in a planting machine, whereby a unified line of cells consisting of plant cells connected to each other is detached from a unified cell sheetcomprising plant cells, the unified line of cells is shifted downwards on upwards through cutting apparatus which direct a cutting effect at the joints between the individual plant cells in the unified line of cellseither from the same direction or from the opposite direction as compared with the direction from which the plant cells are supported during the shifting, in order to cut the cells in the line of cells loose from each other, and the detached plant cells are passed to a distributor in order to feed the plant cells as separated from each other to the planting device. The cutting loose of the plant cells takes place totally automatically when the plant cells are shifted from the cell sheet to the distributor, and does not require any extra movements for cutting loose.