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 Grow Chestnuts. The chestnut is a great nut tree option for those with smaller plots of land to work with. The mature trees usually stay shorter than 50 feet (many other nut trees can get over 100 feet tall). Trees do best in weather with cold winters and very warm summers.