Avocados are tropical plants (they're native to southern Mexico), so you can also plant avocado trees in the ground outside ...

The Hass avocado tree is mainly considered hardy in USDA growing zones 9 to 11. It does best with moderately warm and humid ...

We always had house plants and I was quite young when my father showed me how to grow an avocado tree. You can do this, too. After cleaning the pulp out of the avocado berry (yes, it is a berry ...

Also, Joshua Siskin writes about a California native he’d never seen or heard of began growing in his garden this spring.

"Knowing your zone ensures you choose plants suited to your climate, reducing the risk of plant failure," notes Lydia. "It’s vital to successful gardening, as some plants can’t tolerate the ...

Carmen Gloria Lüttges is marking a milestone in the Chilean agricultural industry as the first woman president of the Chilean ...

Avocado farmers near San Diego pay $300-$400. Santa Barbara has built a desalinization plant that will provide ... which harms the riparian zone--the land along a river that derives its character ...

If you are new to gardening, I recommend seeking out help from those who work at botanical gardens or at local, independent ...

So far planters have only nibbled around the buffer zones of ... elsewhere or plant diseases and synthetic substitutes spelled disaster for the crops. For Mexico, the avocado has been that ...

Kodak's pocket-size projector is a cool gift for teens who love movies, TV shows or video games (which is pretty much all ...

The other usable farmland is flourishing with macadamia nut, chestnut, loquat, avocado, orange and fig trees. There are two ... levels for our agricultural zone,” she said.

The polyphagous shot-hole borer, which can kill a tree in two years, has been detected in four places outside the Perth quarantine zone ... to have wreaked havoc on avocado, mango and macadamia ...