well...u could hide in a tree w/ a baseball bat...i'm a avid hunter(only for food not for pleasure) and nothing short of mesh wire will stop them...u could fill pepsi cans w/ beads or sumthin and sting them @ ground lvl for about a 5-10ft radius from ur plants and when the deer hit them they will run but like everything short of fenceing they will get used to it in about 20-25 days i assume wolf urin may work but i duno if they can identify it if u dont live in a area populated by wolfs...jus dont grab doe piss or u'll have them every where...