Plant Care Tracker Spreadsheet, Houseplant Watering Schedule, Feeding Log and Printable Plant List

Instant digital download: houseplant care planner spreadsheet. You get 2 .xlsx files (blank and filled-in example), a printable PDF and a quick start guide. Nothing physical ships.

A plant care planner for people with more than a few houseplants. Add each plant once with how many days it goes between watering and feeding. Add a row to the log each time you care for it. The sheet then works out the next water and feed date for every plant and puts the plants in order, with the late ones first. A winter setting stretches the watering gaps in the cold months so you do not drown your plants. Edit it on your computer or print the water list. You get both.

WHAT YOU GET
- Houseplant-Care-Planner_Blank.xlsx: empty, ready for your own plants
- Houseplant-Care-Planner_Example.xlsx: the same workbook filled in with 14 made-up plants and a care log
- Houseplant-Care-Planner_Printable.pdf: 2 pages on US Letter paper, a water list with a Done box
- README.txt: quick start

HOW IT WORKS
1. Setup: pick your winter months, a winter factor (such as 1.5) and whether you feed in winter.
2. Plants: name, room, light, days between watering and days between feeding.
3. Log: add a row each time you water, feed, repot or prune. Pick the plant and the care.
4. Water List: plants in the order they need water. It says Late 4 d, Today, In 2 d or OK, and counts how many to water now.
5. Schedule: the next water and feed date for every plant.

WHAT MAKES IT DIFFERENT
- Winter slow-down: in your winter months every watering gap is multiplied by your factor, so a plant watered every 7 days is watered every 11 days.
- Water List sorted by need: late plants come first, then today, then the rest.
- Feeding can pause in winter.
- A printable water list with a Done box for each plant, plus a look-ahead: type an As of date to see the plan for any day.

THE FILES
6 tabs: Start Here, Setup, Plants, Log, Schedule, Water List. Up to 60 plants and 400 log rows. Cream cells are for typing and white cells calculate. Formula cells are protected with no password, so you can unprotect them in Excel with Review > Unprotect Sheet. No macros.

THE PRINTABLE PDF
Two pages, US Letter, with plant, room, water date, status and a Done box, and blank rows to write on. The Water List tab in the spreadsheet is the same page, filled in from your plants and log.

WORKS IN: Microsoft Excel 2016 or newer, and Google Sheets (File > Import > Upload > Replace spreadsheet; layout may look slightly different). Apple Numbers: not tested. The tabs are laid out narrow for phone screens, but I have not tested every phone, so a computer is easiest for the first setup.

THIS IS NOT a reminder app. It does not send alerts, store photos or identify plants. It uses the date on your computer when you open the file unless you type an As of date.

PHOTOS: the listing photos are screenshots of the actual files and the actual PDF. They are not mockups.

INSTANT DOWNLOAD. Nothing physical ships. For personal use only. Please do not share or resell the files.

Designed with the help of AI tools, then reviewed and tested by me.