October planting and blueberry pitfalls on Meg Grows Plants
Two new guides cover cool-season crops, regional planting dates and why a blue berry may not be ready to pick.
Why this story? The channel's weekly summary: what went up this week, what is drawing views now, and where the channel stands among similar channels.
Plant These Crops in October Before It's Too Late!
Meg Grows Plants is treating fall as a planting season, not just a cleanup season. Her two new uploads move from the broad October to-do list to the particular demands of a blueberry bush.
"Plant These Crops in October Before It's Too Late!" is the week's most watched new video, with about 21,000 views. Meg covers cool-season vegetables and herbs alongside garlic, onions, shallots and scallions, distinguishing seed-starting from transplanting and adjusting dates for different growing zones. That last detail matters: her own garden is in Charlotte's Zone 8a, not a universal planting calendar.
The comments add a little garden texture. One viewer describes regrowing bunching onions from the white root ends after eating the greens; another points out a butterfly passing through the frame. Even the neighborhood construction beeps get an explanation in a comment beneath the video.
The newer "10 Blueberry Growing Mistakes That Could Cost You Your Harvest" is drawing views more than twice as quickly right now. Meg plants a bush while working through variety selection, chill hours, acidic soil, containers and pruning. The harvest section offers a useful distinction: turning blue isn't necessarily the same as becoming sweet enough to pick. Wildlife, meanwhile, gets its own place on the list of potential harvest complications.
An older Maine sheep-farm visit provides a different kind of catch-up. Meg tours her friend Mel's gardens and describes garden-to-table meals prepared by Mel's husband Pete, a chef. The shorter Maine growing season makes a concrete contrast with her Charlotte garden, and the tour continues to pick up a smaller stream of views.
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What viewers say
For me, buying bunching onions from the farmers market, eating the greens and planting just 1 inch of the white root part has always worked wonders.
@MagnoliaInfluencerSee it on YouTubeOne of the best things about having a garden is seeing some of the flying parts of nature. Such as the butterfly in your top right corner of your video at 4:30!
@ms.lgraves4147See it on YouTubeSorry about the beeping in the background guys, we are having some kind of construction going on in the neighborhood!
@meggrowsplantsSee it on YouTube
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So ready for fall garden
@HillsHomestead8ASee it on YouTube
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The videos drawing views on Meg Grows Plants right now
- Channel
- Meg Grows Plants
- Subscribers
- 187,000
- Videos published this week
- 2
- Video published
- October 7, 2026
- Video views so far
- 21,431
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Where does Meg garden, according to her Maine farm-tour description?
Meg contrasts the Maine farm's shorter season with her Zone 8a garden in Charlotte.




