Planting seedlings

A method in a seedling planting machine, in which seedlings are extracted from a seedling storage to be transferred to planting means of the planting machine, wherein the method comprises:

• holding the seedling storage in its place on a storage track of the planting machine with first holding elements,
• transferring the seedling storage on the storage track of the planting machine by moving second holding elements in relation to the first holding elements and in relation to the storage track,
• wherein the transferring of the seedling storage is performed, so that
• the seedling storage comes into contact with the second holding elements,
• the seedling storage is transferred from being supported by the first holding elements to be supported by the second holding elements,
• the seedling storage is transferred a transfer distance forward on the storage track by the second holding elements,
• the second holding elements transfer the seedling storage back to the first holding elements, and
• the seedling storage is detached from the second holding elements,
• wherein the planting machine comprises transfer devices of the second holding elements supported on a frame, which transfer devices are arranged to lift the second holding elements from below the first holding elements above them, to transfer the second holding elements a transfer distance forward on the storage track and then to lower the second holding elements from above the first holding elements below them, and
• wherein the seedling planting machine comprises means for directing to the seedling storage a force directed downwards for holding it firmly in the first holding elements and/or in the second holding elements.