"Growing Avocado Trees in your back yard"
Eventually, I found a nursery selling their avocado trees on Amazon for US deliveries and an exotic plant supplier in the UK: And a UK supplier here: davids-exoticplants.co.uk/rarefruits.htm Start the seed in soil and you may get a result but, as mentioned before, the plant won't produce fruit for many years. Either graft or buy a ready grown plant for a good chance of producing your own fruit. Having said all that, avocado plants make very attractive houseplants and can be kept for a few years in the house or conservatory. 
To be honest, unless you live in a semi-tropical region or you have exeptionally long hot summers, you're unlikely to be able to produce a lot of fruit from your avocado tree. But, it's a nice experiment. Try planting a few seeds in water, some in pots and some outside. And when you come to plant your avocado tree outside, whether you've raised it yourself or bought it ready grown, it will need a sunny spot and as sheltered as possible from the wind and cold air flows during the winter months. Growing avocado requires well-drained and very rich - avocados are hungry feeders and take lots of minerals from the soil. This would explain why avocados are just about the richest source of vitamins and minerals in a fruit. They really are packed full of goodness, and they pull all of that from the soil. You will need to feed the plant regularly - always! Avocados can grow into large trees and, in 'hot weather' regions, you should allow about 20 feet for them to develop fully. Because the avocado is such a hungry feeder, nothing tends to grow well in the immediate vicinity, so the 20 foot spacing area should be allowed.
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