Soil and Container Recommendations For avocado trees, Di Lallo recommends a typical houseplant potting soil with some added perlite or pumice to promote aeration.

Repot every year. Provide your indoor avocado tree with plenty of container space for the roots to grow in and spread out. Repot your plant each year in the springtime before the growing season ...

If you're a frequent avocado buyer at the grocery store, you might've thought before about planting your own tree to harvest the fruit fresh.

With water, toothpicks and soil, you can grow an avocado plant from seed indoors. It's worth the effort even though you won't see its fruit for years to come.

Avocados are notoriously hard to grow particularly in heavy soil (clay). This video shows a great example of how to plant an ...

This video shows how to successfully plant avocado trees in areas containing clay soil. Root rot disease and poor soil drainage is the number 1 reason why avocados fail and die but this method helps ...

A step-by-step instructional guide with photos, which shows you how to grow an avocado tree from an avocado pit.

Avocado trees are evergreen and need good light year round to bear fruit. Indoor trees need the sunniest, most south-facing windows in the house. In much of the country, the light streaming even ...

My mother sent me your article on how to grow an avocado tree years ago. I started an avocado seed in a plastic sandwich bag with a small amount of water and placed it in a sunny window. The seed ...

Avocado trees can be tricky to grow. However, if you can master growing one, you will be rewarded with delicious, creamy fruit. Avocado trees can grow in a variety of climates.

Ciscoe Morris gives tips on growing an avocado tree from seed; dealing with sow bugs; and planting cauliflower starts.