The invention discloses a plum tree planting method, and belongs to the technical field of fruit tree planting. The method comprises the following steps: garden construction; seed selection: a mainly cultivated variety accounts for 80 percent, and pollination trees account for 10 to 20 percent; planting: a, transplanting annual grafted nursery-grown plants; water, fertilizer and soil management: applying a fertilizer in March, May, August and October, irrigating the nursery-grown plants after fertilization, and covering plum trees with grass after the irrigation; trimming; pollination management: after early-spring irrigation, spraying a white pigment preparation on tree trunks and boughs before sprouting, spraying a mixed solution of 0.1 percent borax and 0.1 percent ammonium molybdate once on leaf surfaces 15 to 20 days before a full-bloom stage, and manually spraying sugar water of which the concentration is 5 to 10 percent at the full-bloom stage; pest management: preventing and controlling pests by a grapholitafunebrana sex pheromone and a pesticide, and trapping and killing the pests by a black light lamp and sweet lure. Through combination of grafted plant transplanting, water and fertilizer management, pollination management and pest management, the survival rate and fruit set percentage of the plum trees are increased effectively, the survival rate of nursery-grown plants is 98 percent, the fruit setting percentage is 50 percent, and the unit yield per mu is 500 to 800 kg.