Thanks for all the suggestions. You're all correct about deer adapting to various solutions. I have wind spinners in the garden beds, bells, and wind chimes. While I love all of those garden decorations, the deer seem unfazed. We have various motion activated lights and we've found the one on the garage just seems to light the driveway for the deer to get to the flower beds. They really are completely unafraid of us. I have not yet tried the Vicks method - too much rain lately, however am about to give that a shot. We have a couple of dry days in the forecast. And no thanks, BigBill, we have woodchucks of our own. They do not seem to bother my garden beds, however, as they stick to the "North Forty".
