I'm a live and let-live kind of person, BUT!!! if the long legged, daylily munching machines took over my garden, they would be meat in my freezer. I have a son that loves to hunt. I have a neighbor that loves to hunt. I would fill everyone I know of freezers but I could not set by and let them eat everything I work so hard for every year.
All of this ssaid, I know there are thousands of deer that take over areas of our country every year. I wish you the best but I'm afraid a fence is the only thing that can really stop them and then you need to do some research on the right kind of fence. I've heard about a 4 ft fence and then within so many feet another higher fence. It's the spacing of the two fences apart that actually stops them because they don't have room to recover before they have to jump again.
A few years ago my son and I saw several deer standing by a fence that we know to be 8' high. As we passed, one of the deer, from a dead stop, jumped straight up and over that fence. I was amazed!!!! It was like the darned thing was on a spring. I think they have the ability to jump most but the 2 fence design is something they will avoid.
