Sergey Erlikh

Mike Guye wrote:

Marco Swif wrote:Hello, I know this is an old thread. However, I wanted to add  young tree avocados die with a slight frost! I'm in south of France with lovely warm summers, but the weather is wet and cold for 4-6months.... I lost 50 trees in a slight frost! Never again.... If there is a slight frost where the trees will physically be, no matter what country. They will not last long.....

What you report is well known.  
The most difficult stage is the first three years of the tree's life: you will need to protect them from any frost for at least the first 3 winters. I have already given loads of detailed advice on this (scroll back and click on my 'imgur links'). You will need good drainage around the root system, particularly important in the cold wet winters you mention: ideally plant them on sloping land, or on a wide ridge  or mound.  My advice is if you try this experiment again, make it manageable for yourself - 50 trees sounds far too much to begin with !  Start with say 2 or 3 trees so that looking after them during the winter is manageable. Success with this will encourage you to take on more trees later on.

Hi Mike, is building a mound by incorporating big lava stones (in bottom part) and planting avocado tree/s on top of it will be a good idea? Asking as in The Netherlands everything flat and we do have heavy raining seasons.

Mkl Swift wrote:Hello, I know this is an old thread. However, I wanted to add  young tree avocados die with a slight frost! I'm in south of France with lovely warm summers, but the weather is wet and cold for 4-6months.... I lost 50 trees in a slight frost! Never again.... If there is a slight frost where the trees will physically be, no matter what country. They will not last long.....

What varieties of Avocado were these? And what was temperature? Asking as I am in similar climate zone - The Netherlands.