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.
There are a lot of reasons to grow a chestnut. Unlike many other large tree species, chestnuts are moderate to fast growers and quickly become an important landscape feature in your yard, increasing your homeâs value and helping to reduce global warming by sequestering excess carbon in the atmosphere.