Description
Organic Buckwheat Hulls For Bean Bag Filling
Our Bean Bag Filling Buckwheat Hulls are specially graded for filling Bean Bags. The Hulls are sold by volume rather than weight – measure your old filling in a container eg a bucket, and order the corresponding volume of hulls.
Why use Buckwheat Hulls as a Bean Bag Filling?
- Buckwheat Hulls are environmentally friendly compared to polystyrene balls.
- The hulls conform well to the shape of the body resulting in a comfortable and stable sitting position.
- Buckwheat hulls are very long lasting.
- They are naturally fire resistant so do not need treating with any fire retardant chemicals.
- When the hulls do need replacing they are 100% biodegradable.
- Heavier than traditional polystyrene beads, buckwheat hull filling is a great choice for bean bags used in a garden.
Note that this listing is for filling only. Bean bag casings and covers, or complete Bean Bags are available separately.
What is Buckwheat?
Buckwheat is a short-season crop that grows well in low-fertility or acidic soils. Too much fertiliser (especially nitrogen) reduces yields, and the soil must be well drained. In hot climates buckwheat can be grown only by sowing late in the season, so that it blooms in cooler weather. The presence of pollinators greatly increases yield and nectar from flowering buckwheat produces a dark-coloured honey.
The buckwheat plant has a branching root system with a primary taproot that reaches deeply into moist soil. It grows 75 to 125 centimetres (30 to 50 inches) tall. Buckwheat has triangular seeds and produces a flower that is usually white, although can also be pink or yellow.
Buckwheat branches freely, as opposed to tillering or producing suckers, enabling more complete adaption to its environment than other cereal crops. The seed hull is less dense than water, making the hull easy to remove by floating it away.
Buckwheat is raised for grain where only a brief time is available for growth, either because the buckwheat is an early or a second crop in the season, or because the total growing season is limited.
It establishes quickly, which suppresses summer weeds, and can be a reliable cover crop in summer to fit a small slot of warm season. Buckwheat has a growing period of only 10–12 weeks and it can be grown in high latitude or northern areas. It is sometimes used as a “green manure”, as a plant for erosion control, or as wildlife cover and feed.
