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.
The Chinese chestnut tree has brown, strongly ridged and furrowed bark. Its medium to dark green, oblong, linear leaves are 3 to 6 inches long. When they emerge in spring, they provide dense shade through the hottest months of the year.