Welcome to Seasonal Simple Life! I’m so happy you’re here and I hope I can help you on your journey toward a simple and seasonal way of life.
Whether you’re interested in gardening, cooking, preserving, soapmaking, or crafting, I’m happy to share my experiences with you.
Latest blog posts
Gardening
Seed-starting cucumbers: how to get healthy seedlings
Vegetable garden, greenhouse, balcony, or patio: Cucumbers thrive in many environments and brighten your summer with fresh, crisp fruits. They are a vegetable that can be easily seed-started indoors. Let’s have a look at how it works. Cucumber varieties Depending on...
April’s Green Revolution: 10 Timely Garden Tasks to Transform Your Outdoor Space
As spring fully takes hold, April is a pivotal month in the gardening calendar. The soil is warming, daylight hours are increasing, and plants are awakening with renewed vigor. This month presents the perfect opportunity to set your garden up for success throughout...
What to Sow and Plant in April: Kickstarting Your Vegetable Garden
April marks the exciting transition when your vegetable garden truly comes to life. As soil temperatures rise and the threat of frost begins to fade in many regions, this month offers the perfect opportunity to get your hands dirty and lay the foundation for a great...
Recipes
Strudel Dough For Beginners
Apple strudel is one of my favourite sweet dishes and although I’ve made lots of them myself and have eaten even more in restaurants and cafés, my mum's apple strudel is still the best I’ve ever tasted. She always made two baking trays of strudel for our large family,...
Quick and easy beetroot curd recipe
Sometimes, it has to be quick! Whether you don't have the time or energy to cook or simply don't want to spend more than five minutes in the kitchen, this quick and easy beetroot curd recipe will make a wonderful spread on bread or a dip for boiled potatoes. If you...
Carrot pizza recipe
I harvested the first carrots and they smell and taste so good that usually I eat the first bunch of them raw. I love their sweet and earthy flavour, it's delicious! However, it would be a pity to just eat them all up like that and not use them in some more elaborate...
Preserving
Dry-canning apples
Usually, when we preserve fruits or vegetables by canning, we add some liquid (usually water) to fill up the jars. But did you know that you can also preserve apples by dry-canning them? These dry-canned apples are the basis for a quick apple strudel or the filling...
How to make apple vinegar from scraps
If you, like me, pickle a lot of vegetables, you need a good deal of apple vinegar. Instead of buying it, however, why not try your hand at making it by yourself - from scraps! It's so easy, that you'll wonder why you didn't do it earlier and never will buy a drop of...
Canning apple sauce
Apples are available all year round, especially when you grow a variety of them that ensure a long harvesting and shelf life. If you don’t have an orchard, you still can buy apples at any time of year. Nevertheless, fresh apples, plucked right from a tree when they...
Home and Body
Green Mint Soap: Beginner Recipe
This mint soap beginner recipe was the first soap recipe I made and it's still one of my favourites! It's suitable for beginners which means that it doesn't require many ingredients. This is a soap specially for sensitive skin due to the green clay. Consistent with...
Soapmaking equipment
To start with soapmaking, you only need some basic soapmaking equipment. Later, when you are infected with the soapmaking virus, you can always buy additional tools that'll make the process easier and allow you to make more elaborate designs. When looking for...
Soapmaking Safety Guidelines
Soapmaking is a wonderful and rewarding occupation! We can be creative and invent our own recipes, add fragrances and colours to our liking and try out different techniques. However, it bears a certain risk and therefore it's absolutely necessary to be familiar with...
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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