Hmmm I am not sure that deer will eat tomatoes. Deer come up on my brothers farm yard and drink from the bird bath but they have never said that they eat the tomatoes and they have plenty of them growing in their veggie garden. When we grew up on that same farm my parents always had lots of tomatoes I remember helping can lots of them evey year. I wonder if deer don't like the taste of them or if we were just lucky.