Avocado Trees

Plants in containers seems more like keeping houseplants than gardening, but it's my only option in the winter when frost threatens.
Avocado trees are pretty, too. I haven't kept any long enough to know if they'll bear fruit.
For years, my sister would kill them as fast as I could start them. I finally got smart and stopped giving them to her!
This tree is 3 years old and survived last winter even after my furnace died. (A smaller one didn't.)
I was starting them by pushing 3 toothpicks evenly around the pit and keeping the base in water. All too often, I'd let them dry out, so my success rate wasn't high.
Then I thought, why not just put them in dirt and keep them wet? After all, how do they start without human intervention?
It actually worked! Now I once again have small avocado trees for gifts!