Yesterday, we started our very first batch of liquid seaweed fertilizer. As relative newcomers to gardening, we can be delinquent about (because we're intimidated by) fertilizing. Maybe that’s why we’re so attached to our carnivores — because they infamously self-fertilize? But we’re coming around. We recently discovered...

The current state of our tillandsia — our sweet, innocent air plants — has officially thrown us into a shame spiral. It's a bad scene here in bromeliad land: No specimens have flowered in months. Their tips are scorched. These guys are looking dull, dull,...