The invention relates to the technical field of fruit tree planting, in particular to a planting method of longan trees. The planting method includes the following steps of land selection, soil preparation, soil fumigation, ditching, pit digging, sapling transplanting, herbicide spraying, field management and the like. A soil fumigant is mainly prepared from, by weight, 15-17 parts of oleander, 13-15 parts of gelsemium elegan, 15-20 parts of horseradish, 10-15 parts of nitrochloroform, 10-15 parts of dazomet and 10-11 parts of formaldehyde; a herbicide is mainly prepared from, by weight, 10-12parts of thorn apples, 5-7 parts of castor-oil plants, 7-9 parts of carpesium cernuum, 6-8 parts of kalidium foliatum, 6-8 parts of cephalanoplos setosum, 3-5 parts of collagen and 2-3 parts of prometryn. The planting method of longan trees not only improves the average annual yield, pest and diseasedamage is also greatly reduced, the economic benefits of the longan trees are effectively improved, pesticide residues are little and the method is environmentally friendly.