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 pod of the edible sweet chestnut has a sort of porcupine look to it with thin prickly spikes that point out in all directions and form a sort of thicket where you cannot see anything but the spikes.These are green while the chestnuts are forming and then turn brown when the chestnuts are mature.hen the edible chestnut is ripe, the shell opens and the nuts drop like rain. A nut is a seed of the tree, and the goal is to make a baby tree. The nuts even in their spiny hard-as-hell to pick up before they pop roll wildly on the slightest incline.