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
Homemade Elderflower Syrup (simple recipe)
There’s a moment in early summer when the air turns fragrant with the delicate scent of elderflowers — and that’s your cue to make homemade elderflower syrup, a bright and floral classic that captures the season in a bottle. 🌼🍋 This simple recipe walks you through harvesting fresh blossoms, infusing them with a basic sugar-and-lemon syrup, and letting the flavours develop over a couple of days into a versatile cordial. Whether you’re stirring it into sparkling water for a refreshing drink, adding a splash to cocktails, drizzling it over ice cream, or using it in baking, this syrup brings a touch of sunshine to everything you pour it on. With just a handful of ingredients and easy steps, it’s a wonderful way to preserve summer’s joy.
Lilac syrup
There’s something magical about lilac season — those fragrant clusters of blooms signal spring’s peak — and this homemade lilac syrup is a gorgeous way to capture that fleeting moment in a bottle. 🌸🍯 This recipe shows you how to infuse fresh, unsprayed lilac flowers into a simple syrup, gently coaxing out their delicate flavour and pairing it with natural colour from blueberries and brightness from lemon. The result is a floral, lightly sweet syrup that elevates drinks, desserts, breakfasts, and more with a subtle botanical touch — perfect for lemonade, cocktails, iced tea, ice cream, and beyond.Makeit it pullthem,pour ,,
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...
From the Garden
Natural Fertilisers From Animals
A healthy and fruitful vegetable garden is impossible without feeding your plants. After all,...
Plant Nutrients: What Your Plants Need
Plants are not unlike humans. To grow, thrive and stay healthy they need nutrition and...
Soil types – How to determine your garden’s soil
If you want to make your garden a success, it's essential to know its soil type. Plants have...
From the Pantry
No Results Found
The page you requested could not be found. Try refining your search, or use the navigation above to locate the post.
From the Kitchen
No Results Found
The page you requested could not be found. Try refining your search, or use the navigation above to locate the post.
Home and Hearth
No Results Found
The page you requested could not be found. Try refining your search, or use the navigation above to locate the post.
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!
If you want to learn more about me, click here.