With room for only one avocado tree... Will You Get Any Avocados?

摘要

If you live in a locale where avocados trees thrive, the following information should help you in making decisions about how to grow avocados in a limited planting area. What does "room for one avocado tree" mean? Does it mean that you live on Main Street in Huntington Beach and can devote no more than 4 feet by 6 feet to planting? If so, I suggest a Reed avocado, which has beautiful round green fruit that is great on Labor Day after being on the tree 1 1/2 years and is still good in December. The Reed grows tall and narrow but can be topped. Although late-blooming, it also seems to be a self-pollinator; I have had a good set on my little front yard tree, even though it blooms later than the other avocados growing here and cannot cross-pollinate with anything.