Ah Sticki, I will try to answer your question as I'm feeling sorry for you. My daughter grows spud s in pots, laundry baskets from the pound shop, black bin liners, pieced for drainage filled with multi-purpose. She plants them 4" deep, approx 12" apart, so about 3 spuds per pot.
They must be protected from the frost, use a fleece if you have to.
Then sit back and wait. Sorry this is all I know. :o))

Hi Sticki you will need to leave your potatoes a wee while longer before planting them. The sprouts are not long enough or strong enough yet. They should be approx.2"long and green. Keep them as you have them but in a fairly cool place with lots of light. Littlelegs has a great idea for a cheap pot. For Kestrel a second early I would not plant more than one or two per pot. Watering is going to be vital to success in a pot.

many thanks LL and SG ~ that is very helpful, i shall keep your advise, stick it up on my wall and follow it!
i love potatoes! in all forms!
why are you feeling sorry for me LL?
i shall go to the pound shop to look for pots ~ thanks for that idea!
i was wondering about planting them up a week at a time and then i would have a succession of potatoes ready weekly ~ in theory!!!!?

Because nobody had answered your question yet Sticki.
As far as I'm aware you don't have to harvest them all at the same time, plus they store quite well in hessian sacks, you can get smaller sacks, you know , not the sack race size. :o))

Sticki, have just rung my daughter up, she got her sacks fron the local pet shop, 25p each, its what they get bird seed delivered in evidently. Hope this helps.

Taken from Marshalls seeds web site -
Growing Calendar for Kestrel Seed Potatoes (Second Early)
Plant March to May Harvest July and August.
Put 4" of compost in the bottom of your container and place the potato on it. Cover it with another 4" and when you see the shoots come up through you can leave them till they are 8" high before covering them up again. Potatoes do not grow below the seed potato only on stems above that. The growing tips should not be frosted so if any show above the soil you will need to cover them with soil.
On one site I forget which, they recommended using netting wire, about ten feet in length wound round to make a hollow tube about 3' in diameter. Use garden ties to keep its shape. Mark a circle where you want to place it. Plant 6 potatoes, in the soil, near one another, in the centre of the circle 4" deep. Cover them with compost as they grow upwards and then to harvest them all you need to do is untie the tube. If you find the soil is escaping you can use plastic or fleece to line the tube.

this is so helpful ~ thank you scotsgran and littlelegs ~ i shall feel i have to share my potatoes when i dig them up ~ potatoes dauphinois or jackets ~ in August??

If you cook do we have to do the washing up? That is the rule in our house lol.

good rule ~ doesnt seem to happen here

i cook
i wash up ~ but dishwasher does most
i dry up ~ unless in dishwasher
i put away!

Jackets please Sticki,

Jackets for me too. I'll be passing by around the 14th August LOL.

ok, remind me ~ a couple of days before so i can get to the supermarket if i need to!!