Thinking of growing avocado trees but stuck with heavy clay soil? In this video, I walk you through how we planted avocado trees in a raised bed planter using a custom soil mix designed specifically to improve drainage and root health in tough soil conditions.
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• 5% Organic Matter (Peat Moss or Compost)
This raised bed method is a great solution for gardeners in clay-heavy or poorly draining soils who still want to enjoy homegrown avocados! I’ll also show how we prepped the bed, why each ingredient matters, and tips for keeping your avocado trees happy in the low desert climate.
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• Heavy clay soil challenges
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• Avocado lovers! 🥑
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Good morning everyone. Welcome to Epic Yard Farm. It’s another overcast, beautiful morning in October 2025. This weekend we have a big project that I’m super excited about because I finally have a good microclimate that I feel confident that I can grow and try avocados in our garden. And this is the spot. We have butterfly bush on the left hand side uh here which is the northwest side of this spot. And then this east and southeast side of this spot is where the light will shine in and give the avocado good sunshine for when it’s ready to produce fruit. If we could keep them happy and long enough to produce flowers and fruit. We are going to try to dig out uh two hexagon planters from our uh kind of abandoned jungle area where the mint had overtaken the planters. They were too shady to grow any kind of vegetables and stuff like that and use them as raised bed planters for these avocados. The idea of having race back planter for the avocado is a lot of people find if you have very compacted soil, avocados don’t like that. Their roots really don’t like that. And a lot of people find planting avocados on a mount really helps. But my experience with mounts are there’s a good possibility the mounts the soil gets washed away and then you have to rebuild that and it’s kind of high maintenance in my opinion. So I like the idea of repurposing our hexagon planter so we can build up the soil. They will all stay in the planter and over time the avocado’s root should get established in that without any disturbance. Um so that is the plan. Heat. Heat. Hey. Heat. Heat. Today we’re adding four oyas around the root zones of our newly planted avocado trees. This will help the roots get established and get access to water easily um before everything settles and the roots goes deeper and wider than the original root zone. Um we got this from Amazon. I’ll put a link below if you’re interested. I like the size and shape of these. That way it can fit in the space a little better compared to the big round ones. Um, I may hook these up with a irrigation drip so the drippers can fill this when we run irrigation so I don’t have to come out and fill them up. We’ll see how long these last. I’m not going to bury too deep because I’m going to be filling this up with leaf mo mulching. Um, so I don’t want this to completely be buried underneath that. So, this is about where I’m stopping. Heat. Heat. We’ve finished decorating the outer edge of our avocado raised bed and we top dressed it with some worm casting compost so it’s got plenty of organic matter at the top close to where the feeder roots are going to be. And we also planted some uh pollinator friendly plants that will become the ground cover to shade the root zone but not invade the root zone of the avocados. Um we added the oyas to help with irrigation. By no means this is a exactly how you do it video. This is how we are experimenting video that we want to share with you how we decided to do this and how we did it based on hours and hours of research between books, videos by other people in Southern California and Arizona. We will continue to report back how these avocados do. Thank you for watching and we’ll see you in the next video.
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