How Does Your Garden Grow?

Thus far our garden is doing quite well. The critters are leaving it alone (knock on wood).

Yukon Gold potatoes!:

No fence protects our garden beds. We have asked the deer to leave it alone--giving them full permission to gobble down anything else they find. Will this work? Will we be able to harvest what we have sown?

Or perhaps the mountain lion that was spotted yesterday morning a hundred yards from here is protecting our garden?