Biggest issue, which I solved with the bigger pots, is they dry out f you dont pay attention to watering, especially as their leaves get huge and the weather gets warm.
This is touches on why I don't grow much of my own food. I travel too much, and since I live alone, when I'm gone, there is nobody to tend to my garden. My neighbors collect my mail when I'm gone, but asking them to take care of my plants is asking too much.
Herbs tend to be more forgiving, from my experience. My sprinklers can keep the ground moist enough, even in the hot, dry months of mid summer. If my herbs wilt some, I can have them back to normal in a day or two when I get home.
BTW, here is something else people not from North Texas don't know about. In the hottest, driest time of the year (July through September), If I water one part of my property more than another, the ground under parts of my house will expand, while other parts shrink. I end up with hairline cracks in the sheetrock inside my house as the foundation rises and falls unevenly. If I had a big yard, like I had before, I would just plant my garden far enough from my foundation that it wouldn't matter. But, I can't do that in my current yard.
That happened in a big way last summer, when we had very little rain, and 50-something days over 100F. I haven't had the cracks repaired, yet. I probably won't until I decide to sell the house. If I have it repaired now, it will just happen again. I just ignore the cracks.
CD