I don't have monkeys to deal with here, but deer, slugs, and snails have brutally browsed my hapless garden. While my neighbors (that learned of it) were outraged, I dealt with the deer by peeing in a milk jug and splashing it on the leaves of their favorite browse, like my raspberries and strawberries, tomatoes, and even corn. Treating the leafy parts of the plants weekly, or after rain, well deterred deer. Oddly, I got the idea from my dear departed grandmother, who told of the leaky gaskets of the Model A Ford back in the day and running out of water with which to refill the radiator when it ran dry. She laughed uproariously when relating how she was perched on the hood, poised over the radiator to pee into it when a car came around the corner and trapped her in it's headlights.

When the fruits began to ripen and I couldn't pee on the plants anymore, I constructed a cage of field fencing to keep deer to only the parts their rapacious muzzzles could reach, and that allowed some fruit to remain unavailable to them.

I have been unable to cope with slugs and snails. Commercial poisons work, but I have no sheltered space to keep them in, and the bag of it I got early in the year was ruined by rain, becoming a sodden, moldy mass by June, and unable to be spread around the tasty greens the molluscs savagely grazed. Interestingly, European land snails - escargot - are thick as fleas on a dog here, and I have considered harvesting them since I can't harvest peas or beans of any kind because the snails are insatiable and unable to be fenced out.

Beets turned out to be resistant to both deer and molluscs though, so I ate a few kilos of them this year. I consider the raspberries relatively successful too, as I was able to eat a few from June to November this year, the last indomitable berry still trying to ripen while being battered by buckets of monsoon rain as we speak. I do not hold out any hope it will ripen before the mold takes it's toll.

I need an army of elves mounted on mice with tiny shotguns to shepherd my fields against the Orcian hordes of slugs if I ever hope to grow any legumes.

Better luck than mine be yours in coming seasons.

Thanks!