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
The Complete Pumpkin Grower’s Guide: From Seed Selection to Harvest
Ready to grow your own pumpkins but not sure where to start? This complete beginner’s guide covers variety selection, seed starting, spacing requirements, fertilizing schedules, and pest prevention. Discover when to plant for Halloween harvest, how to support heavy fruits, and proper harvesting techniques for maximum storage life. From tiny decorative varieties to massive competition pumpkins, learn everything you need for a successful pumpkin patch!
Beginner’s Guide to Composting: How to Make Compost In 8 Easy Steps
Compost is the gardener’s “brown gold”—the magic solution for poor soil, drainage problems, and nutrient deficiencies. This beginner-friendly guide walks you through 8 easy steps to transform kitchen scraps and garden waste into rich, crumbly humus. Learn which composting system suits your space (even apartments!), the perfect carbon-to-nitrogen ratio, how to troubleshoot common problems, and when your compost is ready to use. Turn waste into wealth!
How to get rid of fungus gnats
Those tiny black flies swarming around your seedlings aren’t just annoying—they’re fungus gnats, and their larvae are eating your plants’ roots! Learn how to identify these common indoor pests and eliminate them using natural methods like nematodes, predatory mites, yellow sticky traps, and proper watering techniques. From prevention (sterilizing soil) to treatment (biological controls that actually work), discover chemical-free solutions to protect your precious seedlings.
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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.