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
Succession Planting Guide: Maximize Your Vegetable Garden Harvest Year-Round
Imagine having fresh vegetables from your garden throughout the entire growing season. With succession planting, you can transform your garden from a place with a one-time harvest to a continuous source of fresh produce! When I started as a new gardener, I was overrun...
January Seed Starting Guide: 11 Vegetables to Sow Now for a Successful Harvest
I don’t know about you but once the festive season is over and life starts again in January, my fingers itch to dig into some dirt! Although there are some outdoor garden tasks you should do in January, it's too cold to get my fingers dirty outside. But I can always...
Garden Tasks in January: Setting Up Your Vegetable and Fruit Garden for Success
Although our gardens are sleeping right now, doesn’t mean that we gardeners have nothing to do! Admittedly, it won’t be so much OUTDOOR tasks like weeding and planting but more INDOOR chores like maintenance and planning. But these are not the only garden tasks in...
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
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. Lilac flowers are not toxic as many people think. One of...
Dandelion honey
A meadow full of blooming dandelions looks like the sun is shining from the ground upwards. It's such a pretty sight! Thinking about the lifeforce and vitality of dandelions, however, I have seen gardeners go crazy: no matter how often you cut them off, they'll always...
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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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