I figure I'll start this thread off by quoting from a post by Llama Lady over at another forum and thought it had some good common sense Ideas..[late in the season here in the States, but for archive/next growing season purposes, feel free to "Chime in" with any other good covert anti-air survelliance techniques that would be beneficial for a backyard gardener to know... 
Quote:
"Apart from the obvious tomato plants I had great success planting my pot plants with Tomatillo plants. The seeds are easy to get from a garden centre and the plants grow faster than pot plants and can grow up to 4ft tall or more, they fruit late and are still green until october. Start your Tomatillo plants 3 weeks before your pot plants. And you have some lovely fruit to eat as well. [Makes great green SalsaIMB]
I also grew a few rows of sunflowers which were early, then a couple of rows of sweetcorn and then pot plants behind. The sunflowers are dying down now but the sweet corn keeps green and grow tall right into the beginning of october.
As we grow all our own organic veg we have just planted our pot among all the veg.
We grew potatoes in towers of car tyres, the late potatoes are still green and the tyre towers are 6 tyres high. This gives great cover for pot plants and the wall of tyres helps to provide a warmer micro-climate if you are in a cold area.Potato tire towers
In the flower garden I love tall flowers anyway and have 9ft high hollyhocks in all colours.
Yellow verbascum grows very tall and Echium Pinniana can grow to 12ft and the leaves are dark 'pot plant' colour, these are perennial plants and stay green until late in October.
A net frame 6ft high with sweet peas climbing up it is also great cover but you need to start them early to get the height.
Growing pot may turn you into a complete gardener..."
[And quoting another source]
"Marijuana crops difficult to detect"
"Police rise to illegal plant hunt challenge"
Condensed from an old article in the Poughkeepsie Journal.
"As summer fades into fall today a shadowy collection of farmers in New York is harvesting a most profitable cash crop -- marijuana.
Tucked in the rural landscape..., stands of marijuana plants are grown between corn plants, under camouflage nets or sometimes out in the open.
The work of identifying and eliminating those crops is often done by air. State police use helicopters to look for telltale signs the vegetation below is illegal drugs, not just trees or shrubbery.
Cannabis, which is worth more in its weight than gold because of the illegal drug trade, can turn a large profit, police say.
For smaller operations, it means users intending to supply themselves for a few months or even up to a year until they harvest again.
State Police Lt....of the Community Narcotics Enforcement Team for the mid-Hudson Valley calls local marijuana farms ''the mom and pop grows.''
"'Marijuana is the number one cash crop grown in the United States right now,'' he said.
...farmland is a favorite spot for marijuana growers, many of whom will plant their crops by finding remote places in fields, then leave the plants until they mature.
Unfortunately, that also means police have a harder time catching the growers. If a crop is left unattended in a field, it could be weeks or months before the people who planted it come back to harvest. Law enforcement doesn't always have the resources to set up surveillance to catch those growers.
Police said the plants...(are) worth as much as $25,000 if they had matured and were sold.
One bust... yielded so much pot -- 2,176 plants, worth an estimated $2.5 million -- police had to remove it with a dump truck. Another..., revealed a tightly arranged, fenced-in group of plants scattered among trees.
Finding the plants is a matter of cooperation and skill. And luck helps. Sometimes residents will call in if they suspect strange plants growing in their area.
Keen sight required
Most of the time, it takes a sharp eye.
Investigator...who previously worked with the Drug Enforcement Administration doing helicopter flybys, said ''it doesn't really jump out at you for the most part.''
"'Everything really looks pretty much green when you're up there,'' he said.
...said it's the shade of the plant, not any pattern or other sign, that will often tell police they're looking at an illegal marijuana field.
''It's just a different color than you would generally see in the woods,'' he said.
... ''It's a totally different color green.''
...said he's seen some inventive methods used by marijuana growers to hide the plants.
''They used to hang red Christmas balls and make them look like tomato plants from the air,'' he said. ''Some sophisticated places will have camouflage netting. They do their best to conceal it.''
Quote:
"Apart from the obvious tomato plants I had great success planting my pot plants with Tomatillo plants. The seeds are easy to get from a garden centre and the plants grow faster than pot plants and can grow up to 4ft tall or more, they fruit late and are still green until october. Start your Tomatillo plants 3 weeks before your pot plants. And you have some lovely fruit to eat as well. [Makes great green Salsa
IMB]I also grew a few rows of sunflowers which were early, then a couple of rows of sweetcorn and then pot plants behind. The sunflowers are dying down now but the sweet corn keeps green and grow tall right into the beginning of october.
As we grow all our own organic veg we have just planted our pot among all the veg.
We grew potatoes in towers of car tyres, the late potatoes are still green and the tyre towers are 6 tyres high. This gives great cover for pot plants and the wall of tyres helps to provide a warmer micro-climate if you are in a cold area.Potato tire towers
In the flower garden I love tall flowers anyway and have 9ft high hollyhocks in all colours.
Yellow verbascum grows very tall and Echium Pinniana can grow to 12ft and the leaves are dark 'pot plant' colour, these are perennial plants and stay green until late in October.
A net frame 6ft high with sweet peas climbing up it is also great cover but you need to start them early to get the height.
Growing pot may turn you into a complete gardener..."
[And quoting another source]
"Marijuana crops difficult to detect"
"Police rise to illegal plant hunt challenge"
Condensed from an old article in the Poughkeepsie Journal.
"As summer fades into fall today a shadowy collection of farmers in New York is harvesting a most profitable cash crop -- marijuana.
Tucked in the rural landscape..., stands of marijuana plants are grown between corn plants, under camouflage nets or sometimes out in the open.
The work of identifying and eliminating those crops is often done by air. State police use helicopters to look for telltale signs the vegetation below is illegal drugs, not just trees or shrubbery.
Cannabis, which is worth more in its weight than gold because of the illegal drug trade, can turn a large profit, police say.
For smaller operations, it means users intending to supply themselves for a few months or even up to a year until they harvest again.
State Police Lt....of the Community Narcotics Enforcement Team for the mid-Hudson Valley calls local marijuana farms ''the mom and pop grows.''
"'Marijuana is the number one cash crop grown in the United States right now,'' he said.
...farmland is a favorite spot for marijuana growers, many of whom will plant their crops by finding remote places in fields, then leave the plants until they mature.
Unfortunately, that also means police have a harder time catching the growers. If a crop is left unattended in a field, it could be weeks or months before the people who planted it come back to harvest. Law enforcement doesn't always have the resources to set up surveillance to catch those growers.
Police said the plants...(are) worth as much as $25,000 if they had matured and were sold.
One bust... yielded so much pot -- 2,176 plants, worth an estimated $2.5 million -- police had to remove it with a dump truck. Another..., revealed a tightly arranged, fenced-in group of plants scattered among trees.
Finding the plants is a matter of cooperation and skill. And luck helps. Sometimes residents will call in if they suspect strange plants growing in their area.
Keen sight required
Most of the time, it takes a sharp eye.
Investigator...who previously worked with the Drug Enforcement Administration doing helicopter flybys, said ''it doesn't really jump out at you for the most part.''
"'Everything really looks pretty much green when you're up there,'' he said.
...said it's the shade of the plant, not any pattern or other sign, that will often tell police they're looking at an illegal marijuana field.
''It's just a different color than you would generally see in the woods,'' he said.
... ''It's a totally different color green.''
...said he's seen some inventive methods used by marijuana growers to hide the plants.
''They used to hang red Christmas balls and make them look like tomato plants from the air,'' he said. ''Some sophisticated places will have camouflage netting. They do their best to conceal it.''
