Has anyone had problems with deer eating their tomato plants? [View all]

This year, after over 30 years of having a garden in the same spot, they literally ate off every shoot that grew outside my wire cages and nosed in to reach more and actually eat the tomatoes.

I hate to consider a fenced garden after all these years, but deer seem to have browsed off everything from new growth on roses to hosta leaves and shrubs.

Do we simply have a population explosion of deer or have they just "discovered" tomatoes?