The invention relates to the technical field of plant cultivation, in particular to a method for planting herbaceous coffee beans. The method includes a land parcel treatment stage, a sowing stage and a field management stage. The sowing stage includes seed selection, sowing preparation and sowing, and the field management stage includes topdressing and pest control. A herbaceous coffee compound fertilizer is mainly prepared from a flavonoid fertilizer, polyaspartic acid, a microelement fertilizer, urea, a bone meal fertilizer, a peanut cake, a sugar alcohol chelated liquid fertilizer, cotton, calcium superphosphate, diammonium phosphate, potassium sulfate and potassium chloride, wherein the flavonoid fertilizer refers to folium ginkgo leaves, and the microelement fertilizer refers to the boron fertilizer. According to the planting method, the survival rate of seedlings can be improved, and by using the herbaceous coffee compound fertilizer, the herbaceous coffee beans are rich in nutrition, high in yield, high in survival rate and low in prevalence rate.