Growing buffalo gourd in northern states and keeping them in check.

What's up folks! I wanna learn how to grow buffalo gourd in zone five up in Chicago, where it's mostly cooler in the fall and winter. I wanna grow it this year for soap, oil and stuff to substain myself, but don't wanna plant it in my indigenous prairie garden where it absolutely choke out many native plants and stuff, and decimate local wildlife populations. Should we plant buffalo gourd in containers so as not to have them spread much farther. I've never grown any type of gourd, but I'd like to learn how. This gourd is among the most versitile of all and I need it in scarce time like this when soaps and essental stuff are scarce. I'm growing them in my Cherokee garden for the memory of my late grandmother or grow them in a separate place to reduce spreading. Please drop me off some stuff on how I plant my gourd safely and substainably. Take care.

Buffalo Gourds have an enormous root so I would suggest planting them where you can handle a root that is 2' x2'.  If you try containers I would suggest a 10-gallon size at least.

The plants or the fruits are stinky so you might want to keep that in mind.  You can find where I talk about them a lot using "stinky melon".

Here are some threads:

https://permies.com/t/68120/melon

https://permies.com/t/16571/Buffalo-Gourd-perennial

https://permies.com/t/154983/Buffalo-gourd-rootstock

I once bought a kitchen stove that looked brand new.  While installing it we found about 25 or 30 buffalo gourds under the top of the stove.  Who knows why?  I don't think I ever used that stove.