I have heard othere talking about that.I plant them each year in out hunt club. I plant them on the pine rowes in the new ground.it is open and clean the first year.
I have sold them to the flea market for the last few years.couple hunderd each year.I have never had the deer eat the first one.
Not any.
I heard they love them after they freeze???????.I have had a few stay after the vines are gone and go back to find a rat hole in the punkin and the seeds gone and the punkin will stay there till it rots.??????

so as far as I am conserned,I would not bet the farm on it.they may in some places,just not in Fla.