So for Christmas this year, we bought an avocado tree. I wanted to plant it where the dead orange tree was, and wish wish wish I had spent a little more time digging, getting the old roots out, and putting down soil for the avocado, because getting it started has been uphill all the way. Trying to establish anything during the dry season here is just plain stupid.
Jene's Tropical did give us very good directions from this website: www.tropicalfruit.com
2019: I'm not at all sure that this tree wasn't suffering from a blight when we got it. Now the other tree is looking bad.