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
Awaken Your Garden: 11 Garden Tasks for March Success
In March, we still have night frosts (and even some day frosts) but that doesn't mean that there is nothing to do in the garden. Quite the opposite! It's time to awaken our gardens and even sow and plant our first vegetables! There are several essential garden tasks...
Dirt, Seeds, and Potential: What to sow and plant in March
Where February still represents winter with a hint of spring as the days get longer, March is quite the opposite: spring with a hint of winter. There’s something magical about that transition from winter’s quiet to spring’s promise that gets my – still too clean -...
23 Common Vegetable Gardening Mistakes (And How to Fix Them!)
Cultivating a vegetable garden is one of the most satisfying occupations in the world! However: sometimes it can be pretty frustrating, especially when you’ve invested a lot of time (and money) and the outcome is a meager - if any- harvest. I know because I’ve been...
Recipes
Bear’s garlic knot
Bear’s garlic, or wild garlic, is one of the first spring herbs we can harvest. It grows in light forest glades but you can also cultivate it in a shady part of your garden. Apart from its benefits for our health, what I like most about bear’s garlic is that IT smells...
Tarte flambée with asparagus and walnuts
Every year I yearn for the first asparagus 'cause it's the unmistakable sign that we are heading out of late spring and right into early summer! I love all types of asparagus, white, green and violet but if I had to choose (which thankfully I don't), I'd say that I...
Spring salad with poached egg
Spring is finally here and we all long for the first freshly harvested lettuce! Also, the first wild herbs can be foraged and why not add the young leaves of nettle, ribwort plantain and dandelion to your salad bowl to boost your energy. Mix in slices of radishes and...
Preserving
My favourite strawberry jams with a twist
Fancy strawberry jam with a twist? Try these yummy recipes for strawberry jam with mint, woodruff or kiwi. Four ingredients and about 30 minutes of your time are all you need to be sent to seventh jam heaven. Strawberry Mint Jam My first recipe is for strawberry mint...
Classic strawberry jam
Strawberries! These sweet, bright red fruits are always a highlight in desserts and cakes. And above all in homemade classic strawberry jam! Enjoy it on freshly baked rolls and you have the ultimate indulgence for breakfast. You can easily capture the sweet taste of...
Fermented asparagus with spruce tips
For quite a long time, I only ate asparagus with sauce hollandaise and young potatoes, topped with some bacon if I felt adventurous. Not because I like asparagus best that way but because I didn't know it in any other way. So, when a short while ago, I tasted raw...
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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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