Potatoes - a very newbie question!

spuds will die back in the frosts so won't over winter except to grow you lots of unwanted plants next year.  you might be lucky and get a small crop though even if planted now.  I planted some a year or so ago in august and got some small spuds from them.  was an attempt at growing for Christmas but they all died back with the first frosts!

Come the cold, they won't grow much more, they need to go in at the time stated in order to get new spuds for Christmas.

Just be warned though, if you trawl through this forum, you will find more tales of failures than sucesses.

However, if you can find some seed spuds left anywhere, you can still get a crop. A few years back after clearing Mrs Digger's plot, we were given some very shrivelled Charlotte seed spuds by another plot holder. This was in June & we had a cracking crop off them about September.