Which should go in a pot?

The explanation:
I have a garden of 4 12′ X 2′ raised beds (I’ll put a photo at the end of the post to give you a better idea of it). In 6′ X 2′ area I had designated for strawberries is not going to be used for them because I had decided that I REALLY wanted alpine strawberries, as I had those from the Farmers’ Market once and they were the most fantastic things I ever tasted. Thing is, they have to be started from seed; the end result being that I have only two teeny tiny seedlings from the whole packet of seeds (which I got from Burpee — if anyone has any better recommendations for alpine/mignonette seeds), so they are going to be grown in a pot (to keep the weeds from choking them) and are probably not going to fruit this year, if they even survive. And of course, every store and market and online seller is absolutely sold out of anything strawberry by now. So now I have a 6′ X 2′ plot that won’t be used.

The dilema:
So, while I was ordering some more matchless lettuce — as that’s the only lettuce that has grown from my Burpee "heatwave" pack but they don’t sell it separately, I was seeing what else that seed seller had, which I might use to fill in the empty strawberry plot this year. I’ve really wanted some spaghetti squash, so I got that. Then I saw that they had ground cherries, which I’ve never had, but sound fantastic. So I decided, given how much space each was expected to take up, to have 1 squash plant and 1 ground cherry plant.

Doing research AFTER buying the seeds, I discovered that ground cherry plants are actually very small, which makes me suspect that one single plant will not give me very many fruits (though please tell me if I am wrong about this!). I REALLY want to make this recipe for my friends, and suspect I will need a LOT of ground cherries to do so. However, I’m not willing to give up my spaghetti squash.

I would prefer to grow multiple ground cherries in the strawberry area and the squash in a pot as 1) it seems logical given how many plants I want of each & 2) it would give me the opportunity to move the squash out of the garden where I already have a straitneck and a zucchini (if the zuke ever comes up). But I don’t want to decide one way or the other until I know if a spaghetti squash can even grow well in a pot. Will it be okay? Is there any advice to make it grow it’s best in a pot? How large of a pot would I need? Is it better to stick the ground cherries in a pot instead?

Anyway, here’s the photo of my garden, just to give you a better idea of what you’re working with. (Yes, I know I have a weed problem. I’m taking care of it.) It’s fenced because of wild animals and my dog who apparently loves tomatoes. I may fence in the pot, where-ever I put it, if the dog shows too much interest. The strawberry plot is the end by the straw stack.

Edit: I just found an article that say if zucchini cross-polinates with spaghetti squash the polinated fruit will be messed up in various ways, one of these ways being flesh that doesn’t do the spaghetti thing, which is kind of the whole point. So I guess I have to sit on the spaghetti squash seeds until I find somewhere else to plant it. The zucchini would be right across from where I was going to plant it in the garden. I suspect that the same risk might happen cross-polinating with any other squash, so I’ll make a spot in the blackberry garden I’m planning in another area for next year.

Thanks for all your help though!