Mixture of hot days and cool nights are perfect weather for Pueblo chiles

While this extreme heat can be tough to handle, Pueblo's peppers thrive in it. News5 stopped by one of the long-standing pepper farms in the Pueblo Mesa Friday.

One of the farmers says the mixture of the hot days and cool nights are perfect for Pueblo's prized crop.

The chiles were planted back in April.

Farmers will start planting Pueblo green chiles

If the weather conditions stay this way for the rest of the season, farmers expect to harvest by the first week of August. You should see them at grocery stores across Colorado by mid-August.

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11 Colorado Springs Safeway stores could be sold if merger goes through

11 Colorado Springs Safeway locations could be sold if the merger between Kroger and Albertsons goes through. On Tuesday, the two companies announced the full list of 579 grocery stores nationwide to be sold to C&S Wholesale Grocers.

Southern Colorado Safeway stores to be sold if grocery store merge happens

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