Soon they were cutting timber day and night, the crash of falling trees echoing throughout the virgin forest. When locals protested, explaining that the area was protected from logging, they were held at gunpoint and ordered to keep quiet. Stealing wood was just a prelude to a more ambitious...
Most avocado trees are also large trees. Hass (the most common supermarket avocado) trees grow to be 30-40 ft. trees. Fuerte (another common variety) grows to over 40 ft. They really do need a lot of space. It’s hard for most of us to justify giving that much precious space of o...
However, the price of Zutano avocados has been so low that the sale of fruit seldom pays for the water the tree needs, and growers that use Zutano trees as a pollinizer must also weigh the increase in yield of the hass avocado against the loss of space for planting more of the ...
Beyond pollination, Zutano avocado trees are used as rootstock to graft other avocado varieties for commercial sale. Zutano avocado rootstock is hardy and vigorous, allowing more popular avocado varieties to flourish, and the variety is ideal for the California soil and climate, making it a choice...
10 of the world's best fresh markets The Groves family have 400 avocado trees on the go, while 2,000 more trees have been planted by another farmer in Bundaberg. The biggest avocado the farmers have found so far is 1.8 kilos. Groves reassures avocado aficionados that increased size doesn’...