Unless you have a very small garden, that's a lot of work and must be renewed frequently. The best deer repellent I've found is Liquid Fence. It's a spray that you only have to apply every few months and it has worked for several years for me.

I don't know if it works for veggies, but someone on the Carolina Forum says that using Milorganite for a fertilizer also repels deer. I'll let you go look up the ingredients. LOL :-)

Cameron

I live with urban deer. They calmly cross my back garden sometimes laying down to watch me work. I yell and jump up and down, they look away. I've tried all manner of smelly repellents, triggered sprinklers etc. etc.
Only real answer: Deer fencing. Not unattractive to the eye and nearly invisible. I now can watch the stags, does and fawns in the wild back of my property while working in my cottage garden. It's a win win situation.

Libby

I tried using blood meal and I have blooms on my roses for the first time all year. I have tried the rotten eggs & garlic mixture and that worked for a while. I think it is important to switch around with different methods as the deer will get used to something and then it stops working. Anyway, the blood meal is good for the roses, they have put on a lot of new growth. They are looking ever so much better since the deer stopped trimming them.

Renews needed too, but I have heard that original, black box Irish Spring soap is a good repellant.. especially when attached to tomato stakes..deer won't go near them.

Deervic is a product I purchase for my mother. They no longer have deer, but have rabbits and squirrels etc. It has been the only thing that works, especially in freezing weather which can mask some scents.

A few years ago I read that the only deer repellant is a fence with a variety of heights inside of it made from berms (or a hill), trellising, an obolisk. The heights need to be different from one another. Apparently deer have poor depth perception and this freaks them out.

GGG