I feed these guys egg yolks now and then but so far no horn worms,

When you are growing vegetables in pots, fertility is very important. To get top results, use a slow release fertilizer (like Osmocote) in the pots once every 4 to 6 weeks, and a mild liquid fertilizer (like fish emulsion) weekly or at least every other week. Everytime you water you are washing nutrients out of the soil and through the drainage holes of the pot. This has to be replaced regularly if you want the plants to make fruit. The other important tip I would give you is to give each plant as large a pot as you can manage.

That being said, I grow tomatoes, eggplants, and peppers in pots too every year. I get lots and lots of good food from them.

But no, I have lots of curly tails, blue-tails, and others and while they don't bother the vegetables much other than a munch here and there. But they don't help control hornworms since to get the hornworms they would have to climb far up into the plant.

Hornworms are easy to control and there is no need to lose a plant to them for any reason so I'd suggest some research into that issue.

Dave

And all that other stuff is nothing but garbage in a pot, attracting other bad guys, including flies and rats. Lucky for you the lizards are probably eating a lot of the bad insects, but they can't eat rats. Food waste belongs in a compost pile, not a container. It can take a year to break down into a form that feeds your plants. Balanced chemical fertilizers work much better. If you're serious about container gardening, checkout the container gardening forum. Heres a long running discussion from that forum.