This keeps the tree healthy throughout the year in the lead-up to harvest season. Doing so can also remove any unproductive ...

plant it or else you don't have tomatoes that year," he said. "Once you plant an avocado tree, two or three years of coddling ...

Rick Shade of Shade Farms has been growing avocados for 45 years. The property he manages has around 5,200 trees.

Thanks to orchard maturation, the United States will receive 130 million pounds of Colombian avocado this 2025 traviesa season.