The long-handled Zipper Single-Row Planting Tooll is designed to facilitate the manual planting of larger-seed crops and transplants. When its V-shaped blade is pointing up, the tool makes a furrow into which the seeds or transplants are placed by hand. When flipped over so the V is inverted, the tool closes the furrow as it is dragged back over the row. The Zipper is also reportedly useful for paper-pot chain planting, for where end-row space in a greenhouse is limited, and for cultivating a densely planted crop (as it throws soil on top of emerging weeds).