Imagine growing your own herbs on a windowsill, turning summer tomatoes into winter comfort, or creating your own gentle soaps with ingredients you can pronounce.
These aren’t impossible dreams—they’re your next small steps toward a more self-sufficient life.
Whether you’re planting your first seeds or you’ve been gardening for years, every season offers fresh opportunities to grow your skills, reduce your footprint, and reconnect with the natural rhythms that sustain us all.
Latest blog posts
From Orchard to Jar: Heavenly Pear Jam Variations
Although it's still August - well, the end of August to be exact - we can already see the first signs of autumn around here: early morning mists, slightly shorter days and the first pears that are ready to be harvested! A few days ago, my dear colleague Bernadette...
How to Make Perfect Pear Jam: From Tree to Jar
When the first pears are ready to be harvested, we know autumn has arrived - no matter how warm the weather still feels. The first pears are ready for picking in August, while late-season varieties can hang on the tree until the end of October. But here's the dilemma:...
How to sterilise jars
Home canning has become increasingly popular in recent years, and it's obvious why: it's cheaper to make preserves by yourself instead of buying them, and you have full control over what's in your jars - or rather, what's NOT in them! Also, what's more sustainable...
June Vegetable Gardening: What to Seed-Start, Sow, and Plant
June is a time for harvesting in the vegetable garden. But if you think the time of sowing and planting is over: think again! June offers us gardeners the perfect opportunity to maximize our growing season with strategic plantings. If you want to harvest fresh produce...
The June Garden Hustle: 10 Tasks Your Plants Are Counting On
The promises of May are kept in June! Forgotten is the doom of night frosts; now, everything is growing wild, and we can already harvest lots of veggies, herbs, and fruits. Summer solstice is around the corner, and the days are long, hot and busy. Let’s see what...
How to get rid of aphids naturally with household remedies
Aphids are a common pest and make life hard for gardeners. Within a very short time, these yellow, green, red or black insects can grow into gigantic hordes and damage the leaves and young shoots of many plants with their piercing-sucking mouth parts. Additionally,...
Recipes
„Spaetzle“ – A Traditional Recipe from Southern Germany
If you have ever been to Southern Germany, I hope you have tried our “Spätzle”! If you have, I just know that you loved them. If not, let me explain what we're talking about here: Spaetzle are a kind of pasta where the raw dough is pressed into boiling water. You can...
Savory Rouladen: Germany’s Timeless Beef Rolls That Tell a Story
Hearty German beef rolls, the so-called "Rouladen" are a popular dish for Sunday lunch or holiday feasts here in Southern Germany. Traditional restaurants have this delicious comfort food on their menus, and although they may seem "vintage" they are a still a big hit....
Authentic Bavarian Apple Strudel (with Vanilla Sauce)
When my siblings and I were children, we used to play outside a lot (those were the days), even in winter. Or rather: especially in winter. We had a (small but great) hill in our back garden that used to be frequented by all the children in the neighbourhood as a...
Preserving
Home and Body
Calendula soap (Beginner’s recipe)
Calendula is known for its skin-soothing and wound-healing effects. This easy recipe for calendula soap makes for a very mild soap that's even suitable for babies. The recipe is beginner-friendly which means that the process is not too complex. If this is your first...
Five uses for calendula
The first year I cultivated my garden, I decided to sow a few calendula between rows of red cabbage. The patch looked beautiful with its combination of thick violet cabbage heads and the bright orange calendula flowers floating above them like tiny suns. Not knowing...
Orange peeling soap
Earlier this year, I got my hands on some organic orange peel... well, ok: a lot of organic orange peel and apart from all the other things I made out of it, I tried my hand at making my first ever hydrolate. It turned out pretty well and I immediately thought about...
About Me
Hi, I’m Angela, the “face” behind Seasonal Simple Life. Welcome to this blog!
Do you dream of creating a colourful and lively vegetable garden where you’ll cultivate all the vegetables you want?
Without chemistry but diversity and many tried and tested varieties that will fill your harvest basket with healthy and tasty fruit and vegetables?
In the evenings, the flavour of freshly cooked tomato sauce flows through the house; winter will come, eventually, and your pantry won’t fill on its own…
Do you want to live a seasonal simple life, decorate your house, craft things that make you happy and add beauty to your home?
Let’s do this together!
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