FOUR Butternut Squash!

I received a free butternut squash plant, I think it was in exchange for some purple sweet potato slips, but it might have also been from cousin Amanda. Anyway, I was still excited about container planting and wanted to try it out.

In these photos you cannot even see the pot because it's so covered by greenery, but it's right in front of the large blue container. I'd estimate the pot was approximately 5 gallon. For the hot summer months of July and August, the plant stayed in it's pot and stayed alive. Then when weather cooled in late August, it started to climb out of the pot and travel the yard. It produced FOUR butternut squash, which is awesome! I wonder if it would do more in the ground, so I might try that next year. The soil was very dry when I did the fall clean up last week and I did not keep a consistent watering schedule. They did seem to burst to life with the fall rains, as you can see with the cracking on one. Too much rain produces cracks but it wasn't quite ready to harvest. It matured nicely and is now curing in my basement. I've read that on average a plant will produce 5-6 squash, so I guess I did okay with a container.