Where? How? Outside, no way. In a greenhouse? Maybe if it is well heated.

Don't know of any "miniature or dwarf" varieties so what variety are you thinking of? Even the bush varieties get 3-4 feet in diameter.

Dave

The plants would be grown inside. I am using a mix of windows and grow lights. I am curious to see if I could grow a container sized patty pan or bush zucchini inside. I am doing research to find small sized squash plants.

Well, anything is possible in the right conditions. You would need intense lighting, probably an HID system, good air circulation, and good media and nutrition.

Agree. Special lighting would be required to force blooms and you would have to hand pollinate and nutritional levels would be crucial as well as soil and air temps.

But even then it wouldn't be perennial. Squash has an annual life cycle so successive plants would be required.

Dave

My problem is that I love zucchini and need to find a way to grow some indoors. Maybe I should search for a perennial similar to zucchini. Is there one?

gurl; I know of no mini summer squash, but container squash can be found with a search. I see no reason why it could not be grown indoors with a good lighting system as cukes tomatoes ect. are grown. Some plants that we think of as annuals do grow like perennials. I grow Pak Choi and chard indoors in my kitchen garden and as long as they are trimmed they will continue to grow with out going to seed. I have harvested them over winter and transplanted them into an outside garden in the spring where they grow until they go to seed. Now Squash may be different I have little experience with the summer type as they are killed off by frost while still in production by our short growing season. I to love zuccs.

curt

Does anyone know how squash due in the SW US? And everyone is agreeing they are in fact perennials right?

Negative: all standard squash have a definite life span and a singular fruiting time. You can of course grow them anytime under controlled climate conditions. That is true of all annuals.

Not really a summer squash, but chayote is a heavy-bearing perennial. More of an edible gourd. It dies back in the winter and resprouts in the spring, but if warm, I suppose it'll just keep going. You might look into it. But be careful, their vines can grow really big. Maybe you can regularly prune it? FWIW, the foliage is edible as well.