Many folks in the Hill Country are. As Austin expands into the hills. Many plants that gardeners want to grow are readily devoured by deer. Numerous materials and methods have been used to try to discourage deer, but usually with little success.
Some gardeners have banned deer by installing electric fences or tall, deer proof fences.
But fences are seldom economical or beautiful. Other solutions include garlic or blood meal sprays that smell bad enough to repulse people as well as deer. Pop bottles that whistle in the wind are supposed to scare them. Strategically placed bags of human hair or bars of deodorant soap hanging in the trees have proved unreliable. Other determined gardeners have tried providing corn or other food for the deer in the hope that they will avoid the urge to browse on their landscape plantings.