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
How To Make Nettle Manure
Liquid manure made from stinging nettles is a must-have in every vegetable garden as you can use it for different purposes: first and foremost as a natural fertiliser for your vegetables, as a tonic to strengthen your plants and as a pesticide to get rid of damaging...
The Complete Pumpkin Grower’s Guide: From Seed Selection to Harvest
When I say berries, I bet you think of currants, strawberries, raspberries, maybe gooseberries or even blueberries. I also bet pumpkins are neither your first nor your second, or third idea. But that’s what pumpkins are: berries. The largest berries on earth, in...
May Magic: Transform your Garden this Month with these 11 tasks
Finally, we can wave those night frosts goodbye and enjoy the sun and warmth that May brings. All the veggies we’ve sown or planted out already get a boost and suddenly the earth is green again. With all the happiness it brings, there are also some tasks for us...
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
How to Preserve Quince: Easy Recipes for Beginners
Once the apples, plums, and pears are harvested, once all the nuts are dried and in bags for storage, and the vegetable garden is cleaned up for winter, we are blessed with one last fruit: the quince. Looking like a knobbly apple but smelling deliciously aromatic,...
Pear Jam
After a year with almost no fruits due to an arid spring and summer, this year provides us with abundant berries, apples, plums and pears! Every evening I peel and slice fruits to preserve them for winter. I've already made apple sauce, dry-canned apples and started...
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...
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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