In the setting interface you can set it to not auto water/feed your plants iirc. When I was doing my planting I would overwater/overfeed my plants then check on them about 2x during the day and they'd be fine until harvest.
Yes on setting.
On overwater/overfeed, my usual pattern is water/feed to the max after initial planting, using Zeus pots and best water/soil. Plants hate it, but they grow. Then as supplies dwindle and plants grow up, they recover to full health. Then toward end of the grow period, they starve, so the health drops - but not enough to cut harvest. At harvest time, they still give me full drops.
In other words, there is no need to check on plants multiple times a day, a common planting chore. Just harvest/plant once a day about same time.