We have desert hard packed soil here - the very worst! Lots of people here garden in raised beds - I’ve amended the soil for years, but use mostly pots except for the fruit trees.
Have planted two avocados over the years - lost both and won’t plant another one. Some of my neighbors have beautiful, large trees, which don’t produce every year.
My local nursery told me planting an avocado here is 50-50 as far as it taking and thriving.
Think I’ll stick with citrus and figs which thrive in this fairly harsh climate (we are going from 60 degrees and rainy to 94 on Sunday, that’s how fast the weather changes around here - plants don’t know what to do!).
UC Davis and LSU in Louisiana both had growing programs that involved Fig trees in their Pomonology Ag programs. Both were discontinued at some point. (Used the funds for DEI programs and PolyScie?) I have an LSU Tiger (It has purple stipes of course!) and LSU Improved Celeste in my 5 gallon bucket Fig orchard.
If you ever think about planting a new fig tree you can go to YouTube and see all sorts of videos of fig varieties. Some of the better are I-258, Black Maderia, Violette d Bordeaux, Bordissot Griese, Col de Dame Noire, Campaniere, Maltese Beauty . I had Black Madeira (kk) but it did not ripen for me until December which would not be a problem for you, a great tasting fig which I gave away to someone after advising them that it has to be brought inside to ripen.
**This note is for people not in the LA area....I am in zone 6B; I have 2 in ground figs. Chicago Hardy and Olympian. They do grow back from winter die off or trim down, and can produce if you prune them and train to no more than 2 or 3 fruiting ladders. I have a third, Nero 600. which grows back but has not produced fruit after die back, so it's essentially a landscape planting. Olympian (probably a European brown turkey) produces the better fig. They need winter protection. Cut back in December cover the stem with mulch and plastic bags filled with leaves. (Be aware that voles like to eat the roots.) When they come back treat them as unproductive weeds that require heavy pruning of the suckers into 2 or 3 scaffolds to produce. If you live in a temperate area like LA, there is not much point in planting these 2 figs, there are much better tasting figs than these cold tolerant varieties! I have better tasting cold sensitive figs growing in 5 gallon buckets which I can put in a dark place in the basement overwinter.
**One more note for anyone other than Bon reading this...any fig discussed here is a Common Fig that does NOT require a wasp for pollination.