Welcome to Seasonal Simple Life
Join me in creating a self-sufficient, sustainable life through gardening, preserving, and simple living.
Every season offers fresh opportunities to grow your skills and reconnect with nature’s rhythms. 
Latest Posts
10 Essential Garden Tasks for April (What to Plant, Sow & Protect Now)
April marks the true beginning of the gardening season. Discover the most important garden tasks to tackle now — from sowing vegetables and hardening off seedlings to protecting young plants from frost and pests.
Homemade Eierlikör Variations (10 Easy Flavors for Spring & Easter)
Looking for new ways to enjoy homemade Eierlikör? These 10 easy variations—from fruity strawberry to rich chocolate—add a delicious twist to the classic recipe. Perfect for Easter, gifting, or simply treating yourself.
Easy Homemade Eierlikör Recipe (Traditional German Egg Liqueur)
German Eierlikör (or Eierlikoer as it is sometimes spelled) is a wonderfully tasty cream liqueur...
From the Garden
How to Grow Peppers & Chillies from Seed: The Ultimate Step-by-Step Guide
Learn how to grow peppers and chillies from seed to harvest with this complete step-by-step guide. From sowing and seedling care to pruning, harvesting and seed saving, discover everything you need to grow healthy, productive pepper plants at home.
February Seed Starting Guide: What to Plant Indoors for Spring Gardens
February is the perfect time to start seeds indoors and save serious money on your spring garden. Learn which vegetables to plant now, including tomatoes, peppers, brassicas, and herbs. This guide covers 20+ crops you can start indoors, optimal temperatures for germination, timing tips for transplanting, and solutions to common challenges like insufficient light and dry indoor air. Get a 6-8 week head start on your growing season!has ,,,,
11 Garden Tasks to Tackle in February
February is not my favourite month. It's still cold outside, and some days it's so foggy and...
From the Pantry
Lilac syrup
There’s something magical about lilac season — those fragrant clusters of blooms signal spring’s peak — and this homemade lilac syrup is a gorgeous way to capture that fleeting moment in a bottle. 🌸🍯 This recipe shows you how to infuse fresh, unsprayed lilac flowers into a simple syrup, gently coaxing out their delicate flavour and pairing it with natural colour from blueberries and brightness from lemon. The result is a floral, lightly sweet syrup that elevates drinks, desserts, breakfasts, and more with a subtle botanical touch — perfect for lemonade, cocktails, iced tea, ice cream, and beyond.Makeit it pullthem,pour ,,
Sweet-sour pumpkin
Let’s be honest: there comes a point every autumn when we hit “peak pumpkin spice”. You know, when...
Dry-canning apples
Usually, when we preserve fruits or vegetables by canning, we add some liquid (usually water) to...
From the Kitchen
Strawberry Pavlova
If you have never come across a pavlova, you missed something! It's basically a baiser base with...
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...
Bear’s Garlic Brioche Braid
One of the first plants that we can harvest every spring is bear's garlic (or wild garlic). It...
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About Me
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.
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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