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
Small garden, huge harvest: Maximising your small vegetable garden
When I was a child, we had a vegetable garden of about 40 square meters. Seeing that we were six people and Granny also had a patch for her and Gramps, it was a relatively small garden. Yet, it produced most of our vegetables, and we rarely had to buy any from the...
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...
Recipes
Strawberry Pavlova
If you have never come across a pavlova, you missed something! It's basically a baiser base with cream and fruit. That may sound a little dull but don't underestimate this yummy combination: the sweet, crisp base, the rich, fluffy cream and the fresh fruit will...
Carrot muffins with carrot curd/cream cheese topping
Everybody knows lemon curd but did you know you can make curd from vegetables also? I tried out carrot curd which, in combination with cream cheese, is the topping for these moist carrot muffins. We have carrots in abundance all year round, either fresh from the...
Bear’s Garlic Brioche Braid
One of the first plants that we can harvest every spring is bear's garlic (or wild garlic). It grows naturally in forest glades but you can also cultivate it in a shady corner of your garden. I've tried it last year but my garden lies in full sun so I think that was...
Preserving
How to dry herbs
What would cooking be without herbs? They not only are beneficial for our health but also add flavour to practically any dish. To make sure that we can use herbs all year round, we have to preserve them during summer. Drying is the most common practice to preserve...
Six great ways to preserve herbs
Herbs are often unremarkable to look at, but man, what would we do without their flavour? Can you imagine a tomato sauce without thyme, rosemary and basil? Or a roast without a bouquet garni? What about pesto and herb butter for a barbecue? Yet, herbs not only flatter...
Three recipes for herb pesto
Aficionados of pasta and fresh vegetables appreciate the fresh and aromatic flavour of pesto. If you have fresh herbs at hand you can make some delicious herb pesto with simple means and relatively few ingredients. The big advantage compared to the store-bought...
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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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