Pumpkin Center, Kern County, California. This article is about the unincorporated community in Kern County. For the unincorporated community in Lassen County, see Pumpkin Center, Lassen County, California.
When to harvest chestnuts? Chestnuts donât ripen at the same time and chestnut harvest time can span as much as five weeks, although the nuts generally ripen in a 10- to 30-day span of time in late August and September. Allow the nuts to fall from the tree naturally.
How to Harvest Chestnuts. Chestnut burrs each contain two or three nuts. Chestnut trees (Castanea spp.) make attractive deciduous landscape trees that also provide edible nuts in fall. At maturity these trees can reach more than 30 feet tall, and you need several trees if you want them to produce nuts.