Have you ever wondered why no matter how much you watered, fertilised or weeded your garden that your favourite plants just don’t grow? Even if you follow all of the instructions, there is no guarantee that you will be able to achieve your ambition of a dream garden – unless you know what’s in your soil. BBC Scotland’s Beechgrove Garden will be giving an insight into the little-known world of soil when they visit the Macaulay Institute in an episode aired at 7:30pm on 16th April. [continue reading ... ]




The Macaulay Land Use Research Institute and SCRI joined forces on 1 April 2011 to create The James Hutton Institute. It is the first Institute of its type in Europe and will make major, new contributions to the understanding of key global issues such as food, energy and environmental security.