Peach Sets New Weight Record in Palisade, Colorado
Do you love peaches?
There's a lot to love on a huge peach picked recently on the western slope of Colorado.
Farmer Robert Helmer harvested a Cresthaven peach that weighed 1.5 pounds according to the Grand Juction Sentinal.
An average peach weighs about half a pound, one third of Helmer's giant peach. It would cost $3.28 at "Farmer Bob"'s fruit stand, where peaches sell for $2.50 per pou