Welcome to Seasonal Simple Life
Join me in creating a self-sufficient, sustainable life through gardening, preserving, and simple living.
Every season offers fresh opportunities to grow your skills and reconnect with nature’s rhythms. 
Latest Posts
What to Sow and Plant in June: A Complete Vegetable Gardening Guide
June isn’t just harvest season — it’s a golden opportunity to keep your vegetable garden productive well into autumn and beyond. 🌱☀️ In this seasonal guide, you’ll discover what to seed-start indoors, which vegetables you can sow directly outdoors, and what’s ready to plant or transplant into your beds right now. From cool-season brassicas and summer squash seedlings to carrots, beans, lettuce, spinach, and beetroot for direct sowing, there’s plenty to keep your garden growing. You’ll also find tips on hardening off plants, transplanting fruiting vegetables like pumpkin and peppers, and essential June chores like mulching, harvesting herbs, and fertilising hungry crops. Smart June plantings now help ensure a steady, delicious harvest throughout the rest of the season.
June Garden Tasks: 10 Essential Jobs for a Healthy Summer Garden
Originally published June 2024 • Updated June 2026 with expanded June garden task and FAQs. The...
June Reflections: Living Seasonally in Early Summer
June invites us into abundance — long days, first harvests, strawberries in the kitchen, wildflowers on the table, and sunlight to soak up whenever we can. In these June reflections, we explore seasonal living in early summer, from gardening and preserving to simple self-care rituals and ways to embrace the joy of the season.
From the Garden
What to Sow and Plant in June: A Complete Vegetable Gardening Guide
June isn’t just harvest season — it’s a golden opportunity to keep your vegetable garden productive well into autumn and beyond. 🌱☀️ In this seasonal guide, you’ll discover what to seed-start indoors, which vegetables you can sow directly outdoors, and what’s ready to plant or transplant into your beds right now. From cool-season brassicas and summer squash seedlings to carrots, beans, lettuce, spinach, and beetroot for direct sowing, there’s plenty to keep your garden growing. You’ll also find tips on hardening off plants, transplanting fruiting vegetables like pumpkin and peppers, and essential June chores like mulching, harvesting herbs, and fertilising hungry crops. Smart June plantings now help ensure a steady, delicious harvest throughout the rest of the season.
June Garden Tasks: 10 Essential Jobs for a Healthy Summer Garden
Originally published June 2024 • Updated June 2026 with expanded June garden task and FAQs. The...
June Reflections: Living Seasonally in Early Summer
June invites us into abundance — long days, first harvests, strawberries in the kitchen, wildflowers on the table, and sunlight to soak up whenever we can. In these June reflections, we explore seasonal living in early summer, from gardening and preserving to simple self-care rituals and ways to embrace the joy of the season.
From the Pantry
Homemade Woodruff Syrup (Waldmeister Syrup Recipe, Uses & Tips)
A traditional Central European spring specialty, woodruff syrup captures the delicate aroma of hay, vanilla, and fresh herbs. Learn how to identify woodruff, harvest it safely, and make natural Waldmeister syrup at home — without artificial colouring.
How To Ferment Radishes: Two Easy Recipes for Spring’s First Harvest
Radishes are one of the first gifts of the spring garden — and one of the easiest vegetables to ferment. In this guide, I share two simple methods for turning a plentiful harvest into crisp, tangy fermented radishes that can be enjoyed for months.
How to Do a Pantry Audit: Step-by-Step Organisation and Rotation System
When my son brought me a six-year-old jar of brown, sluggish pumpkin from our pantry, I knew something had to change. A proper pantry audit and rotation system isn’t just about organisation—it saves money, reduces food waste, and ensures you’re always eating fresh ingredients. Learn how to transform your pantry chaos into an efficient system that actually works in real life.
From the Kitchen
Homemade Eierlikör Variations (10 Easy Flavors for Spring & Easter)
Looking for new ways to enjoy homemade Eierlikör? These 10 easy variations—from fruity strawberry to rich chocolate—add a delicious twist to the classic recipe. Perfect for Easter, gifting, or simply treating yourself.
Easy Homemade Eierlikör Recipe (Traditional German Egg Liqueur)
German Eierlikör (or Eierlikoer as it is sometimes spelled) is a wonderfully tasty cream liqueur...
Dampfnudeln Recipe: Authentic Bavarian Steamed Buns with a Caramelised Crust
These authentic Bavarian Dampfnudeln are soft, fluffy and finished with a delicate caramelised crust. A traditional step-by-step recipe inspired by Oma, with practical tips to help you make them perfectly at home.
Home and Hearth
Dry Hands After Gardening? A Gardeners’ Hand Care Ritual to Protect, Clean & Repair
Gardening nurtures the soul but can be hard on the hands. Discover a simple natural hand care ritual to protect, clean, and restore dry gardeners’ hands using gentle homemade remedies and seasonal self-care practices.
13 Ways to Use Orange Peels at Home — From Food to Cleaning
Discover 13 creative zero-waste uses for organic orange peels! From candied treats and flavored oils to natural cleaners and body scrubs, learn how to transform orange peels into useful products that save money and reduce waste. Never throw away an orange peel again!
Homemade Chestnut Laundry Detergent: Simple, Sustainable and Free
Those gorgeous chestnuts falling in autumn aren’t just for decoration – they make amazing free laundry detergent! Learn how to forage and prepare horse chestnuts, extract their natural cleaning power, and use them for sustainable laundry. This beginner-friendly guide includes two simple methods, practical tips, and everything you need to know about washing with nature’s gift.
About Me
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.
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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