Trap crop for deer.
After cutting down weeds along the perimeter of my garden fence yesterday, I left two of the three gates wide open....because I'm stupid that way. It happens once or twice a year, but surprisingly the deer tend to jump the fence (also once or twice a year) rather than walk in. I think that the open door invitation confuses them. Anyway last night a deer walked in and filled up on my sunchoke/Jeruselem artichoke plants and left the strawberries, tomatoes, peas and lettuce alone. Same thing happened last year with minimal damage to some of my peppers. I think that I will put in a couple more sunchoke planters in strategic places inside the fence next year. The JA grows huge and fast so the deer can eat a lot of it (which they do) and the plant's growth is not bothered (unlike sunflowers from seed). Unfortunately the sunchokes are so popular they don't survive outside the fence.
I pulled up an old broken down stock fence and put it up for the garden. It has cotton clothes line strung at 5.5 ft and 7 ft with a bit of barbed wire here and there. Sometimes a section of clothesline sags or gets taken down for this or that and a deer will get brave and jump in. It works surprisingly well for having 6-10 deer walk past it twice a day.