I have pretty much given up. The insect apocalypse has me worried. The watermelon seems able to out-grow whatever it is that always eats its leaves. Squash, never. Tomatoes I hand pick the bugs off with chopsticks but can't keep up with them. Citrus mostly does ok. Okra grows without anything bothering it, also broccoli, cauliflower, collards, mustard, fennel, sweet potatoes, hong tsoi, catmint, most of the trees.

Passion fruit, I had a vine but some caterpillar that can only eat passion flower vine ate it to death and didn't even stick around to make butterflies. So I gave up on that even though it does like the heat.

And I don't know how many years I would have to not grow squash to get the squash bugs under control.

Birds, I grow elderberries for them. Crows I give cat food in the front yard hoping they ignore the backyard, so far so good.