It makes no difference to the tubers.

Hi Hybrida and welcome to GoY. The 'seed pods' are just that, think of them as tomato fruits if you like - though totally inedible and toxic! Potatoes and tomatoes are both from the same genus. You eat the swollen tubers of the potato and the fruits of the tomato. Your potatoes are fine, we pick off the fruit and bung in the wheelie bin, don't compost or you will have a major problem with tomatoes appearing where you do not want them :-)

You meant potatoes didn't you ;-p

You are right also Mg in that they do belong to the same genus. There is some dispute about the Tomato genus Lycopersicon still being used as a valid genus as it is so closely related to the Potato (Solanum tuberosum) that it seems arbitrary to continue with it.

There are others members of the genus Solanum that are not as close to each other as the Potato and the Tomato yet are still within Solanum. Makes no sense unless a revision is due.

Oops yes potatoes Fractal - brian dead... God spare us from botanists!

More often these days it is geneticists who are responsible for changing plants from one genus to another.
Seems to be a lot of potato fruit around this year, or is it a lot of new growers who have not seen them before?

We've got some potato fruit, but then we do have most years.