PLEASE HELP! Urgent. Can you grow squash in a pot?

Good news - YES! Bad news, not in merely "medium" pots. Minimum 2 foot squared. Preferably bigger. Worse news - squirrels love to eat the roots and stalks of vining plants. (At least the $&@ tree rats around me.) Cover up those areas with metal mesh. Really, really bad news - Technically speaking they say you can't grow a pumpkin in a container. I did. My container is about 3 feet squared. BUT, to do that, I spent the whole summer going out and rearranging it, because it wanted to go in all sorts of directions but MY yard. I also had to squirt very, very, very long vines full of huge leaves every couple of days to avoid Powdery Mildew. Add to that, I missed a flower growing through my chain link fence, and because of that, developed a sad looking pumpkin I named "Quasimodo," because it was growing 3/4ths of one side and 1/4th on the other side of the fence. Gravity won, and Quasimodo died before his time. Only the neighborhood birds and @&$% tree rats were happy. It's a whole lot of work. Glad I did it one year, but I'll never do that again. Good news again - cauliflower is much, much easier and growable in containers. (Still need a fairly big container though. ;) Oh, and I don't hate you, as said, I've done all this myself, so why would I? But you have to do something in return - learn from this year's effort. Don't give up gardening, because you think it's too much work. You picked some of the hardest plants to grow in your first year. At the end of the year, you need to decide which were worth the effort. Then, next year? Consider tomatoes and peppers, if this year was too hard. ;)

Squash is not a container plant unless you plant bush squash. You would need a very large "pot" for pumpkins. All those plants need room for the roots to develop. Pots would confine the roots and they will not produce as much, if any. Pumpkins and squash can grow vines 30 feet long or more. They are much better planted in a fertile spot in the garden.

I grew lovely zucchini in 7 gallon pots. Many landscaping companies will sell "used" pots (from landscaping jobs) for a few cents each, including 5, 7, 10 gallon size and larger.

Squash is not a container plant unless you plant bush squash. You would need a very large "pot" for pumpkins. All those plants need room for the roots to develop. Pots would confine the roots and they will not produce as much, if any. Pumpkins and squash can grow vines 30 feet long or more. They are much better planted in a fertile spot in the garden.

I grew lovely zucchini in 7 gallon pots. Many landscaping companies will sell "used" pots (from landscaping jobs) for a few cents each, including 5, 7, 10 gallon size and larger.