Go to a local barber or hair salon. Ask them to save the hair clippings for you. Take the hair clippings and spread them over your yard. This is how my Great Grandpa kept them out of his garden. One thing to remember about deer is that they are an extremely curious animal. Lights and noise will scare them at first but eventually they will come to see what it is all about. Their sense of smell is one of their best defense senses and they will catch wind of things and run the other direction.
This, I have a neighbor who has a deer stand on our property line, I practice QDMA and the neighbor shoots anything that walks. I put this out right on the property line and the deer stay away from it. Human hair and urine works great protecting my garden. I also put a Messina plot master around my garden, basically just tape that you spray with detergent mix. It holds the scent until it rains. Deer for the most part stay out of it.
Not saying you should not try it, but I covered our sunflowers- for doves- in milorganite and the deer still had their way with them. It seems like we're getting less food in the woods for them because we've never had a problem with deer in this particular field. Good luck.
You'll have to Google it to find out where to get it, but I used peppermint concentrate last year on sunflowers and it worked great. Has to be applied at least once a week. It would take you about 15 minutes to apply with a sprayer to yard plants. The deer in your area will get trained to the fact that they hate the smell of your yard in about a month and they'll stop coming.
Well I grew up in Batesburg Leesville. Lots of hunters and farmers in the area. You HAD to ask for hair clippings to get to the front of the line lol. In my hometown asking for those were not some strange looked down upon statements.
