**FOR USE WITH AP LIFESTYLES** This undated photo shows an avocado plant in New Paltz, N.Y. Everybody wants to grow some of their own food these days. How about avocados? We're talking about a plant that really does bear fruit, not just the stems and leaves you get from plants grown from avocado pits raised to become houseplants. It's a challenge. (AP Photo/Lee Reich)

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Indoor avocados are an iffy proposition

• By ncs-import
• January 21, 2011