I live in eastern Ontario, Canada, and this area is polluted with white-tailed deer. I have several vegetable garden patches, some fenced, some not. The only safe annual crops I have found that I can plant outside the fence are garlic, onion, and sunflowers. Deer sometimes nibble on young sunflowers and will decapitate a few, but they mostly leave them alone. I have found sweet corn to also be reasonably deer safe. They will take some leaves from the young plants, but not many and they rarely touch the cobs. Raccoons are the main threat to my corn. For perennials, deer have never bothered my hops, rhubarb, or raspberries.
I live in eastern Ontario, Canada, and this area is polluted with white-tailed deer. I have several vegetable garden patches, some fenced, some not. The only safe annual crops I have found that I can plant outside the fence are garlic, onion, and sunflowers. Deer sometimes nibble on young sunflowers and will decapitate a few, but they mostly leave them alone. I have found sweet corn to also be reasonably deer safe. They will take some leaves from the young plants, but not many and they rarely touch the cobs. Raccoons are the main threat to my corn. For perennials, deer have never bothered my hops, rhubarb, or raspberries.