Abstract: The effects of intercropping green manure on soil available zinc and nutrient content of young tea garden are studied in this paper. Field experiments were conducted with four kinds of green manure (peanut, soybean, mung bean and‘chafei No.1’), the effects of intercropping green manure on soil pH value, organic matter, available zinc, nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium, plant height, plant width and other growth indexes were studied. The results showed that intercropping green manure was beneficial to the increase of soil zinc content in young tea garden, and the improvement effect was obvious after one month of green manure buried, the effects were in sequence of mung bean＞soybean＞‘chafei No.1’＞peanut. Intercropping green manure increased the contents of available nitrogen, available phosphorus and available potassium in young tea garden soil. The correlation analysis showed that soil zinc content was significantly and negatively correlated with soil available nitrogen and available phosphorus, with the correlation coefficients of - 0.888** and - 0.941** respectively. The four kinds of green manure improved plant height, plant width, stem and branch and survival rate of tea, and the effect of intercropping peanut was the most obvious. Mung bean and peanut are screened out to improve soil fertility and enhance the growth of tea tree.