My last planting of Tomatoes, Squash, Peppers & Eggplants | Pacific Northwest Garden in July.

It’s early July in my Portland driveway garden, which means the spring crops are starting to finish — and every empty space becomes an opportunity to plant something else. In this video, I clean up around the cherry tree bed, pull out old pea vines and greens, harvest bok choy, lettuce, kale, and shishito peppers, and then start filling the gaps with another round of summer crops. I end up planting eggplants, peppers, tomatoes, winter squash, a melon, an Armenian cucumber, snapdragons, marigolds, and asters — probably closer together than most gardening advice would recommend. But that’s part of the experiment in this small Pacific Northwest garden: seeing what can actually work when space is limited and the season is moving fast. I also give a tomato update and talk through how I’m trying a looser, multi-stem approach this year instead of my usual strict single-stem pruning. Thanks for gardening with me today from my Portland, Oregon driveway garden. #pnwgardening #smallspacegardening #vegetablegarden #gardenharvest