HelloAvocado

The 2020 summer of avocado research begins....7 avocado trees trimmed and ready for nutrient experimentation!🤓💚 They're also in my homemade containers using old compost bags 😊👍💚

Can you believe it's taken nearly 17 months for this avocado to germinate?
I have another seed planted at exactly the same time, from the same variety....and it's over 12 inches tall with loads of leaves!

Four years ago....the first two avocados I started to grow! 😄 Since then a lot has changed! 🥑 Those two trees are still going and form part of the avocado clan which is over 150 trees of varying ages and sizes.
I don't grow them in water anymore after the research I did.
Still no flowers or fruit on the trees I have...but still pursuing the dream of getting avocado trees to flower and fruit in the UK 😊😊

Our first trees to go into in 2020 😊 Ermintrude and Florence 😊 Florence is camera shy 😜 It's a real joy to grow our avocado's but there's something special about writing the label, giving it a fresh topping of cotswold stone gravel and a lovely outer pot 😊 Ready for a new loving owner! 💚

📣Let the trials begin!📣
This is Mysterio, a 60cm tall avo tree. This one is part of our outdoor trial to see which conditions are best for avo trees in the UK. We're also trialling nutrient feeds to see which additives keep them in tip-top condition! 😃😊💚

Three brand new wonderful avocado trees ready for you to take home! 😃 Choose from Poppet, Pickle or Mia! 😃💚 Grab a coffee while you're browsing too 😊

Bit of new growth coming through on 'C1'... yep. ... all our avos have secret code names so we can tell who's who 😎💚

Talk about 'like a phoenix'... this avo was transplanted into a bigger pot...and as sometimes happens it didn't like it. The leaves started going brown and it looked pretty sorry for itself.
Since a previous avo did this....then died (RIP avo) ... with this one I thought it time for different measures. Trimmed the stem back from 3ft to around 6 inches.
Looked after it, new shoots appeared and now it's healthy and growing wonderfully! 😃💚

Another batch of wonderful books off to in Witney 😃 Our first batch sold out...brilliant to share the avo growing love 😄💚 Witney is clearly avocado central 😃💚
By the way....the book is available on Amazon too 👍💚

Madrid is clearly socks capital! has a great variety 😃👍💚 More sweets for ma feets 😃💚

Too many avocado socks? Never! 😂 Woohoo... more treats for ma feet! 😃💚👍

The best guacamole I've eaten while out and about 😃👍 serves up truly great food and it happens to be vegan! The photo doesn't do it justice 😂 Amazing 'chilli con carne' with crunchy tortilla chips and tremendous guac 😃💚