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
Seed starting for beginners: A step-by-step guide for growing healthy seedlings
Spring is still far away at the beginning of the year, but the new gardening season has started already! The first vegetables wait eagerly for you to seed starting them because they need this headstart to prepare for the warm season. But seedling cultivation isn't...
11 Essential Garden Tasks to Tackle in February
The days become longer and although it may still be cold and even frosty outside, I can feel the itch in my fingers to dig into soil! Ok, we may not be able to plant outdoors yet but there are still plenty of garden tasks in February that will give us a head-start on...
February Seed Starting: Your Guide to Early Spring Garden Prep
When the days get longer in February, my fingers start to itch and I yearn to get them into the dirt. Alas, it’s still way too early to sow and plant outdoors. BUT: we can prepare for spring by seed-starting some of our vegetables indoors in February. If you’re new to...
Recipes
Braided yeast bun
When I was a child, my mum made a braided yeast bun almost every weekend. When on Saturday evening the smell of freshly baked yeast dough wafted through the house, we knew that we were in for a treat. Unfortunately, waiting wasn't a strength of any of us and more...
Recipe spinach lemon lasagna
I love lasagna! Not only the classic one (which is adorable!) but lasagna in every variety. It's such a great dish to experiment with different vegetables, herbs, spices, sauces and flavours. Take the combination of spinach and lemon for example: they are a dream...
Preserving
Spruce tip honey
Every spring, the firs and spruces grow new, light green tips. Spruce tips start growing in April and, depending on the weather, you can forage them until the end of May, just as long as they are still light green. Spruce tips contain essential oils, but not as much...
Woodruff syrup
When I was a kid, woodruff sherbet powder was totally en vogue! Sometimes, when my friends and I were walking back from school, we went to the local store and bought some of it as a treat. There was also a "woodruff" jelly of a light green colour and overly sweet...
Lilac syrup
Every year, I can't wait for the lilac to bloom, and every year, I'm sad when it fades again a few weeks later. That's why I try to preserve those beautiful flowers as best as I can and thus prolong their season. Contrary to popular opinion, lilac flowers are not...
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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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