I opted not to use blood meal or other products, because they weren't 100% effective and required reapplication. I construct simple chicken wire barricades that are closed with a bamboo garden stake. I place them around the plants until the plants are large enough not to be ruined by being bitten off. I've learned not to mind the appearance of the chicken wire as long as the plant is protected. Basically, I threw in the towel on rabbits long ago. These little barricades are the only way I have found to really keep the rabbits out.

I agree with Flora--planting like this may do a little bit, but won't completely solve the problem. As she stated, chives are super easy to grow, but they do grow in clumps. It would take a lot to make an actual 'fence'. Garlic chives are also nice, with pretty flowers, though they'll take longer to mature. (they're pretty puny the first year) Both chives can spread if you don't cut the flowers to prevent seeding. Basil you might want to do more research on--I seem to remember that it might be a help to roses in other ways, but as I don't grow roses, didn't pay much attention to that when I read it. Catnip grows easily, but you will attract every cat in the neighborhood to your garden, and it can spread. Catmint doesn't attract the cats as much, but does become a nuisance as far as spreading. Garlic and onions are relatively easy, but may not have much effect, especially in raised beds. I'm a city girl, so don't have much problem with bunnies and deer (do have to worry about rats eating my seedlings). I do remember something I read saying she plants a ring of parsley around some beds--the bunnies just stay on the edges and eat that and leave the inner stuff alone. Aphids will be a problem, and if you want to stick organic, the best way to combat them is your garden hose. A good spray will knock most of them off, and if you keep it up, they're weak little critters and many will die before climbing back up. A spray bottle of a dishsoap solution will help kill eggs organically--make sure you're spraying the bottoms of leaves. Neem may be an option too. Maybe check out the rose forum for other suggestions? The herbs that have been mentioned here are all easy to grow. Most like average soil, well draining (which your raised beds would be). Very little fertilizer is needed for in-ground herbs, if any as long as the soil was amended with compost, etc. They all like to be kept more moist (moist but not sitting in water) unlike some of the Mediterranean arid types--if you look at thyme, oregano, rosemary--you'll have to do more research to learn their water needs. Basil is annual, easy to grow from seed or buy transplants, but you'll plant it each year. Chives are perennial and would come back after winter each year.

If it's the foliage being eaten you need to consider the tomato hornworm. Raccoons would eat the fruit but not the leaves or stems. Hornworms are huge caterpillars that only come out at night and are surprisingly hard to find during the day for something that's 4" long. Caterpillars are green with white stripes on the sides, and they eat so much that entire branches dissappear overnight. You'll need to go out at night with a flashlight to find them. Then just pick them off. No need to spray. Deer will eat tomato foliage I think, but not just the lower branches, being tall creatures they start at the top of the plant.

There was a PBS Nature feature on urban raccoons - fascinating. These creatures need no woody or natural situation. They are very easily and happily adapted to even very heavily populated urban environments, living in attics, garages, storage sheds or nesting in hollow parts of trees. As far as moving on when there is "nothing to attract them" - that is just wishful thinking. These guys are scavengers - garbage cans, dumpsters, vegetable gardens, pet food bowls left outside - these form a never ending, all-you-can-eat banquet. Normal fences will not even slow them down - they can travel vertically just as easily as they travel laterally. And there are no real repellants I have ever heard of that work. Electrifying a fence or wire or completely covering the pond is really your only viable solution. Even predators are not entirely effective. Raccoons will avoid dogs if not cornered but if cornered, they are vicious fighters and spread serious diseases if not inflicting fatal wounds. As for cats......it is not usual to see 'coons and cast sharing the same food dish :-) Here is a link that might be useful: PBS - 'Raccoon Nation'