Plant-tying machine: staple gun tool for attaching tomatoes, vines and climbing plants in the kitchen garden

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Plant tying machine

Name: Plant tying machine
SKU: 1005005545829417_350686
Price: 34.9 EUR
Availability: InStock

34,90 €

This tape tying tool fastens a stem to its stake, a wire or a trellis with a single press of the hand, using a PVC tape secured by a metal staple. It is suitable for tomatoes, vines, cucumbers and raspberries, and is available on its own in green or red, or as a complete kit with tape and staples.

Ref. 1005005545829417_350686·Training tool

Version : Unit only, green

Unit only, green

Complete kit, green machine

Unit only, red

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The summary

What it does: one squeeze of the hand wraps a tape around the stem and support, staples it and cuts it.
For your crops: tomatoes, cucumbers, peppers, vines, raspberry canes and flowers that need training.
Two versions: the tool on its own, in green or red, or the complete kit with tape and staples included.
What it uses: tape and staples, which you replace once the reel runs out.

Tape tier that fastens stem and stake with a single squeeze

The plant tying machine is a manual tape tool that, with a squeeze of the hand, wraps the tape around the stem and its support, staples it and then cuts it. It is used for tomatoes, cucumbers, peppers, vines and raspberry canes. It measures 31.5 x 10.2 cm and weighs about 450 g, and is available on its own or as a kit with tape and staples.

This tying tool fastens a stem to its support in a single action. You position the stem and the wire between the jaws, squeeze the handle, and the tool wraps the tape around both, closes the loop with a staple, then cuts the tape. Your left hand remains free to hold the stem.

🍅 The technique, broken down

The mechanism combines three operations in a single stroke of the handle. The tape wraps around the stem and the support, the staple goes through the overlap and locks it, and the blade cuts the loop free from the rest of the reel. You get a closed loop, with no knot to tighten and no adjustment to redo from one plant to the next. Every loop comes out the same size, whereas a tie knotted by hand is tightened differently depending on how tired you are, and a tie that is too tight marks the stem a few weeks later. It shows most on tomatoes trained up a stake, because the stem keeps thickening until the end of summer.

🍇 Where it's used

The tying tool is useful wherever a stem needs to be fastened regularly to a fixed support, whether that is a stake, a taut wire or a trellis. It is most useful on fast-growing crops, since each plant is tied several times in the season and the same action is repeated along the whole row. In a sheltered vegetable garden, a small family vineyard or an ornamental garden, the same loop is applied. It is also used for trained cucurbits, such as the Long de Chine cucumber, whose stem bears slender, ribbed fruits of about 50 cm.

In the sheltered kitchen garden

Tomatoes, cucumbers, peppers, and climbing beans all need tying in every 3 to 5 days at full growth.

On tensioned wires

Vines and raspberry canes are trained row by row, the left hand holding the cane against the wire.

In the ornamental garden

Climbing roses and clematis can be trained on a trellis without having to tie in each shoot individually.

Choosing a tomato variety that can be trained all summer

If you are preparing a row for training, the Red Jupiter tomato seeds give a mid-season tomato with indeterminate growth, whose stem reaches 1.80 to 2.20 m on a stake. Its fleshy beefsteak-type fruits, weighing 80 to 230 g, load the stem as the season goes on, and ties fixed every 3 to 5 days during full growth hold the plant against its support without marking it. The packet of 35 seeds also leaves you enough to fill several rows, which the tying tool fastens at the same pace.

A tie left in place will strangle the stem

The tape does not break down within the season, and a tomato stem thickens throughout the summer. So make the loop wide, in a figure of eight around the stem and the support rather than tight around both, and go back to cut the oldest ties when you strip the lower leaves. At the end of the crop, remove the tapes and clips along with the stems, because they do not go on the compost heap and would end up in your soil for years.

🎯 The unit alone or the kit

Both versions carry the same tool, the difference lying in what comes with it. The machine alone can be chosen in green or red and ships without consumables, whereas the complete kit arrives with 10 rolls of tape, 10,000 staples and 5 spare blades, enough to get started on the day it arrives. If you have never handled a tying machine, the kit gives you consumables in the right format for the tool from the outset, with no need to hunt for compatible refills. Tapes and staples then keep without expiring, provided they stay dry. A row of tomatoes trained over 5 months needs about ten ties per plant, which is worth counting before the season, because the roll of tape and the staple strip run out at the same rate. Keep some in reserve, because a strip that runs out in the middle of a row leaves the tool stuck where it stands.

🧰 Maintenance between two seasons

A tying tool gets clogged by sap, and that is the only maintenance it really needs. Wipe the jaws and the blade with a cloth soaked in household alcohol at the end of each day of heavy work, then apply a drop of light oil to the handle pivot before putting it away for winter. Remove the partly used reel and tape strip rather than leaving them in place, because tape that absorbs moisture sticks and jams the mechanism when you start again. Store the tool closed, somewhere dry, and you will find it ready to work the following spring without any dismantling.

Technical specifications

The essentials

Tool type: Manual tape tying toolIt grips and clamps like a staple gun.
The action: Roll, staple, cutAll three operations are completed in a single handle stroke.
Dimensions: 31.5 x 10.2 cmLength and height. The jaws open to about 45 mm.
Weight: Approx. 450 g
Consumables: Tape and staples
Target crops: Tomato, cucumber, pepper, vine, flowers

To budget for separately

Replacement blade: Reels for a tape tier
Spare staples: Fine staple strips

In the box

1 tape tying tool, green or red depending on the version chosen, with 1 spare blade on the machine-only option
10 rolls of tape, 10,000 staples, and 5 spare blades, in the full kit version

Operating principle, sequence of the action and target crops recorded on 20/09/2026 from the documentation of similar tape tying tools. Composition of each version, dimensions and weight taken from the product images. The tying rates quoted are ranges of typical use.

The machine alone or the complete kit

It is the same tool in both cases. What changes is what comes with it in the box.

Can't decide between the two versions? The tool is the same. The question is whether you already have tape and staples, and whether the colour of the body matters to you.

	Ribbons supplied	Staples supplied	Choice of colour	Price
Machine onlyYour choice	No	No	Yes	34,90 €
Recommended Complete kitYour choice	Yes	Yes	No	50,90 €

Machine only

Ribbons suppliedNo

Staples suppliedNo

Choice of colourYes

Complete kitRecommended

Ribbons suppliedYes

Staples suppliedYes

Choice of colourNo

Contents of each version rechecked against the shop's variants, on 20/09/2026.

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The tying tool fits in a small parcel, along with its tape and staples in the kit version. Exact delivery costs and estimated timescales are displayed at checkout once you have entered your address.

Frequently asked questions

8 questions

6 key questions, 8 in the detailed view

What does the complete kit version include?

In the box	Machine only	Complete kit
The tying machine	green or red	green
Rolls of tape	none	10
Staples	none	10,000
Spare blades	1	5

The complete kit lets you start the day the parcel arrives.

What rod diameter can it be used on?

Does the tape degrade on its own?

How do you avoid strangling the stem?

What should you do if the tape no longer cuts cleanly?

Can it be used with one hand?

Is it suitable for training vines?

Does it need to be stored in any particular way?

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Plant tying machine

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