The invention discloses a method for reusing saline-alkali waste cultivated land to grow plants, comprising the following steps of: (1) digging grooves and holes, ensuring length according to terrain, setting slight gradient at the bottom of the grooves, and arranging a water outlet at a lower place; (2) building a water discharge groove at the end of the water outlet; (3) digging a water return pool at the head of the land, reflowing redundant water in the grooves and holes, and storing the water in the water return pool; (4) isolating the saline-alkali waste cultivated land from the matrix by an agricultural greenhouses film at the bottom and the periphery of the grooves and holes, or paving furnace clinker at the bottom of the grooves and holes, and isolating the periphery of the grooves and holes by the agricultural greenhouses film; (5) the proper matrix has mixture of pearlstone, vermiculite and silver sand, mixture of furnace clinker, danty and coal ash, mixture of exotic soil and straw fermented substrate and exotic soil of the mixture, respectively filling the matrix into the different grooves and holes; (6) applying compound fertilizer and diamine with fixed quantity before the plants are grown, and topdressing urea and diamine with fixed quantity at twice at the fruiting period of the plants; (7) irrigating by means of trickle irrigation by a drip tape; (8) ridging, film paving and growing when the plants are grown; and (9) leading the grooves and holes to have a certain gap, and replacing the surfaces of the grooves and holes with the straw fermented substrate, so that the influence of the saline alkali to the matrix is reduced.