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

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. While it takes a lot of patience to grow an avocado ...

An avocado pit is relatively easy to sprout into a new plant. Then you'll need to know how to grow an avocado tree indoors because these plants aren't hardy in most areas of the country. They can ...

If your avocado tree isn't producing avocados, here are some potential problems and some helpful solutions.

Avocado trees start easily from grocery-store varieties. I always thought of them as easy, pretty container plants, especially if you start four or five seeds around the edge of a 12-inch pot.

This week our SoCal Garden Clinic turns to problematic avocado trees: Question from reader Steven Klein of Malibu: In November 2011, I planted a 3-gallon Lamb Hass avocado tree on a slope with ...

Another difference now: the trees often come in what in the nursery trade are called “sleeves,” or a tall narrow container, rather than in the more traditional 5 gallon containers.

Question: I’m super excited to order some fruit trees this year from the University of Nevada Cooperative Extension Orchard, but it only makes sense for us to have them in large containers. W ...

Plant Doctor Tom MacCubbin gives advice on gardening in Florida including care of mums, avocado, crape myrtle, tibouchina, orchid trees, hibiscus and skunk vine.

If your avocado tree isn't producing avocados, here are some potential problems and some helpful solutions.