An attractive economical sustainable mulching alternative. Cover your beds with a thin layer of hulls, ½–1" thick: it will look sparse at first and the hulls may seem light enough to blow away in a good breeze. They will swell up nicely after a rain or two and settle down to a summer of weed and grass suppression. OGS staffer Renee uses them in chicken nest boxes to keep eggs clean, and they make chick brooder poop patrol a breeze—clumping litter for chickens!
We have a surprise customer base for these hulls from people who use them not to mulch, but for making zafus and other pillows. We happily sell them to gardeners and meditators alike. Purity varies from bag to bag; if you are longing for immaculate hulls, we invite you to loosen the grip on perfection and embrace the wabi-sabi of affordably-priced seed shells that may contain some impurities. In other words, these hulls are cleaned and packed for agricultural use; pillow makers and other crafters may find these suitable for their purposes, but we cannot guarantee the purity or absence of buckwheat flour or seed fragments. MOFGA.
