If you have limited space in your garden, you have to make tough decisions each year about what to grow. The most important factor in choosing what to grow is what you like. If you love pizza, summer is a great time: throw some stretched pizza dough on the grill and top it with fresh garden veggies, cheese, and sauce (or fresh tomatoes you grew yourself). The level of satisfaction you will get will be immense, so I humbly suggest you plant a pizza garden this year.

Pizza usually starts with tomatoes, and if you like sauce, you want tomato sauce or tomato paste. If you prefer just slices of juicy tomatoes on your pizza, you’ll want larger heirloom slicing tomatoes. Of course, you can grow both. While tomatoes are an obvious choice, think about what other vegetables you want on your pizza, and remember that you don’t have to think traditionally. In my 20s, I had a pizza with grilled eggplant on it, and I’ve made that pizza every summer since. Classic choices like bell peppers, onions, and basil are a good place to start. But also consider summer squash or zucchini. Sliced and grilled, they’re delicious on pizza. Spinach, oregano, arugula, or rosemary all help make a delicious pie.

While some vegetables do better together than others, there’s no big deal about planting most vegetables together, even if they’re not beneficial—with a few exceptions. You don’t want to plant fennel in your pizza garden, as it will negatively impact all the other vegetables planted with it. You can keep fennel in a separate planter nearby. And if you like broccoli and cauliflower on your pizza, it’s best to keep them on one side of your vegetable bed and your tomatoes, peppers, and eggplant on the other. Your greens, such as basil, arugula, and spinach, can grow in between. The key is to consider how much space each plant needs, which can vary. Zucchini grows quite tall horizontally, so I like to let it hang over the edge of the bed. Tomatoes, especially indeterminate ones, grow quite tall, so you’ll need support. Basil prefers to be tucked in between plants to grow lushly. Onions, for example, can be planted with tomatoes because they take up a different space: tomatoes are above ground and onions are below.

Some of the items in your pizza garden will take the better part of the season to grow. You’ll see tomatoes in mid-summer, but peppers and eggplant will take a little longer to mature. In the meantime, you can enjoy your squash, arugula, and spinach in other dishes. Onions can be picked in their scallion stage, even if they’re not fully bloomed yet. Just make sure you leave enough in the ground to reach a more mature state later in the summer.