Garden Watering and Feeding Planner

Who this is for

The watering round, written down so somebody else can do it. The garden is split into zones — beds, pots, greenhouse, lawn, hanging baskets — with how each is watered, how often you have decided, and what feed you use. A week of rows underneath records what was actually done.

Gardeners going away and handing the watering over, households sharing the job, and anyone with pots, a greenhouse and borders that all want something different.

What this helps you track

• Which parts of the garden need watering and what is in each
• How each zone is watered — can, hose, drip line, butt or timer
• How often you have decided to water and feed each zone, in your own words
• Which feed is used where, and when it was last given
• What was actually done each day of the week, ticked off
• Where the water comes from and where the tap, butt and key are

How to use it

1. Write the garden, the period, who normally waters and where the water comes from at the top.
2. Split the garden into zones in the first table — pots by the door, the greenhouse, the raised beds, the lawn, the baskets — and say what is in each.
3. Write how each zone is watered and how often you have decided it should be. That interval is yours: nothing on this sheet suggests one, because it depends on your weather, your soil and your pots.
4. Name the feed you use for each zone and follow whatever its own label says about strength and frequency, not this sheet.
5. Use the week table to tick what was watered and fed each day, and note the rain — a wet Tuesday is the reason Wednesday was skipped.
6. Leave the sheet by the tap or the back door when you hand the job over.

Formats

• Printable PDF (A4 and US Letter)
• Fillable PDF with form fields
• Fill in online, saved in your browser

The printable is laid out inside a box that fits both A4 and US Letter, so the two files are identical and neither one is scaled. The fillable PDF has real form fields. The online version keeps what you enter in your own browser and builds the completed PDF on your device.

How to print

Download the A4 or US Letter file to match the paper in your printer, open it in a PDF reader and print at 100% — not "fit to page", which shrinks the writing space. Both files leave a 14 mm margin, which clears the unprintable edge on home printers. To print the online version with your entries in it, use the Print this sheet button, which prints only the sheet and none of the page around it. More on printing.

Questions

How often should I water?

The sheet does not say. Weather, soil, pot size and what you are growing all change the answer within a single garden, let alone between two. Write the interval you have settled on and adjust it as the season shows you.

How much feed should I use?

Whatever the product's own label says. There is a column for the feed's name so that whoever is watering can read the label themselves; no strength, dilution or frequency appears anywhere on this page.

Is this the same as the houseplant log?

No. That one is a dated log of individual indoor plants. This is a zone plan for the garden with a week of ticks, built to be handed to somebody else.

What if it rains?

Write it in the rain column and skip what does not need doing. The point of the week table is to record what actually happened, not what was scheduled.

Can I reuse it every week?

Fill the zone table in once in the browser version, download it as a PDF and print a fresh copy each week with the zones already on it.