I love the Sweet Dumpling types too.
Personally I grow the variety Festival. It's semi bush unless you over-fertilize it as Hubby did this year. Festival is usually my first squash to ripen and I'll get more / plant than off most every other variety I grow (about 15).
Even tho Festival is semi bush, I wouldn't put more than 1 or 2 plants in a container as it will just stunt the plants. We did a plant in a 3 gal nursery pot this spring and we were watering the pots 2 or 3 times each day after they had fruit on them. They still dropped a lot of fruit. The pots were just too small.
Here is a view of our farm stand from several years ago when we had a bumper squash crop.
Carol
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