11 Plants to Help Keep Deer From Eating Your Tender Plants! I think I should probably call this garden blog post, '11 Plants to Help Keep Deer From Eating Your Beets! You may relate to this story. It's our first summer in our downsized home. For the first time ever, Steve and I have a little raised bed garden. He has done such an amazing job on planting the seeds and everything was growing beautifully until...IT happened! We came home last Thursday evening to find that someone had pulled up all our beet plants. There were a few stragglers hanging in the deer netting and some withering on the...