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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
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 Garden
How to Build a Greenhouse from Scratch: Complete DIY Guide (2026)
Ever dreamed of a greenhouse but couldn’t afford the €5,000+ price tag? I built my own 27-square-metre wooden greenhouse from scratch for just €1,310—with no carpentry experience and no permanent foundation (perfect for rented gardens!). This complete guide walks you through every step: from creating a string frame and setting ground sleeves to installing windows and covering with weather-resistant tarp. Four years later, it’s still standing strong through Bavarian storms. If I could build this as a complete beginner, you can too. All you need is patience, basic tools, and a few weekends.
January Reflections: The Beauty of Rest and New Beginnings
When I look outside my bedroom window on a typical January morning, I can see the nearby woods, sometimes covered in tiny snow hats. January in Bavaria is a month of deep rest—for the garden and for us. While the world rushes with New Year resolutions, nature shows us a different way: the necessity of dormancy, the beauty of bareness, the wisdom of slowing down.
In this reflection, I share how I embrace January’s dark, quiet energy through cozy rituals, winter self-care, and following my garden’s example. From gratitude journals and candlelight to homemade preserves and Gemütlichkeit, discover how to honor this season of rest. Spring will come soon enough—for now, let’s hibernate.
Garden Tasks in January: Setting Up Your Vegetable and Fruit Garden for Success
Although our gardens are sleeping right now, that doesn’t mean that we gardeners have nothing to...
From the Pantry
How to make apple vinegar from scraps
If you, like me, pickle a lot of vegetables, you need a good deal of apple vinegar. Instead of...
Canning apple sauce
Apples are available all year round, especially when you grow a variety of them that ensure a long...
Pickled beetroots
Never judge a book by its cover - or in this case: a vegetable by its appearance. Beetroots are...
From the Kitchen
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...
Bear’s garlic knot
Bear’s garlic, or wild garlic, is one of the first spring herbs we can harvest. It grows in light...
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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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