Deer create a number of problems around the garden and highways.  Deer will eat a variety of plants including sweet potato leaves, roses and others.

If you have problems with some animal eating your plants, it is probably a deer, however, rabbits, and even  raccoons eat vegetation.  Deer hooves are a distinct "V" shape.  Deer will jump a fence less than seven (7) feet high. 

Hanging bars of soap or small cloth bags of human hair in trees are effective odor repellents.*

Hunger, loss of habitat and loss of predators have made this a large problem.

Virginia Tech has information on a suitable fence (see reference below), but it is not practical for the home gardener.  There are products available at your local feed and seed stores that will provide a liquid barrier around crops and gardens; reapplication is necessary after a rain.  There are native plants that deer are not fond of; however, if hungry, deer will eat almost anything. 

The following plants are less likely to be eaten by deer; Beautyberry, Butterfly Bush,  firethorn, crape myrtle, lilac, heavenly bamboo and black-eyed Susan.

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