You can use pots, buckets, tyres, compost sacks. Anything that will hold earth and has holes for drainage will do. The container needs to be 18 inches per spud across.

Once your spud has been 'chitted' (sprouted in a cool, light, frost-free place), it is ready to plant. Two shoots per spud is plenty, break off any excess weaker ones. Don't leave the shoots to grow any longer than two or three inches, they may break during planting.

Make sure that your chosen container has holes for drainage and put some extra drainage (crocks, broken up polystyrene, bricks in bigger pots...) in the bottom. Put some rich earth or compost over the crocks, about 5 inches.

Now put your spud in, with the shoots facing upwards. Cover with at least 5 inches of earth or manure. Water well. Put the pot in a frost-free place, on feet or bricks, and keep it moist.

When the new shoots show through the earth it is time to feed your spud.

Once the spud plant is about six inches high 'earth it up' (put earth all around the shoots and leaves until only the very top is showing).

Feed it again once it has grown another six inches.

Nip out the flowers as it grows if you like big spuds.

Harvest your spuds when the leaves turn brown and the plant starts to die off.

GOOD LUCK FOR A GOOD CROP