Rigged up a small improvised garden
My dad put a small garden up at the farm one year spent alot of time, putting a fence around it to keep the animals out.
About harvest time, there was a ground hog and a rabbit living in the garden, they had tunneled under the fence.
He even had electric hooked up to it, and the deer jumped the fence, got tangled up and still ate the corn.
My wife just plants a few tomatoes and peppers in her flower beds around the house, and knock on wood no animals have bothered them in years.