Potato disease?

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    I dug up my potatoes yesterday and after washing off the dirt I saw that some of them have this weird brown kind of scale stuff on them. Is this normal or some kind of disease and are they okay to cook or will I have to dump them?

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    It looks like 'scab', quite common. Still perfectly edible :thumbsup:
     
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      Woohoo! Thank you! Will get chomping!
       
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