Yeah, I had a ridiculous amount of basil this year.   All my nightshades did well.  Tomatoes are the pickiest, if you can grow some nice tomatoes that aren't of the cherry/currant/grape variety, which grow like weeds, you should be proud.  They're very particular about temperature, steady but not overwatering, and soil conditions.  

I do potatoes in two different ways.  I have one group of containers for potatoes and they do really well in those and they're easier to harvest.  I have another spot that's just a hillside I planted them in years ago that faces the South.  Every year I never get them all and they just come back on their own.  It's old school but it's much lower maintenance than doing the container planting.  I don't get quite as much yield per square foot but I also do almost nothing to them all year long and still get a decent amount of potatoes out of that patch.  These days I grow so many things I'm all about stuff that I don't have to think about.