New Turf Cut Too Short

We laid some turf and cut it as low as it would go ( we had a little accident!) and now its exposed all the very light green/yellow new shoots. Before it was lovely and green. We have been watering for 30 mins a day even with light rain drizzle we have been having. Obviously all the advice says dont cut it as short as it will go on it's first cut but we did in error.

Will it recover with watering each day and hopefully with the not too sunny weather it wont be scorched by the sun?

 

Short answer?

Yes!

Kepp up the watering though and a bit of feed won't go amiss.

 

thanks! i hope it recovers, i havent fed it as i put pre turf fertiliser down and we only laid the turf 2 weeks ago so was reluctant to feed it. it looks illuminous green/yellow, i have read mostly that these new shoots that are so exposed will die...i hope not :(

 

If you've already fed it then that's fine.

I laid four rolls of cheap B&Q turf in part of our small front lawn just over a couple of months ago, I left it over a month before cutting it, (probabably too early) and it looked a bit like you say does yours, in fact I was contemplating re-doing it, but resisted.
I've given it a couple of weak feeds of "Wilko's" liquid lawn food as our soil is a bit sandy and quick draining and now it looks fine, despite getting a lot of shade from the overhanging azaleas as it is along the new edging pavers I laid. A few more weeks and it won't look any different to the rest of the lawn.

 

thanks for your advice, was it the
Wilko Lawn Food Liquid Fertiliser 1ltr?

May get some of this but reluctant to put down as its only been down about 2 weeks. although it had rooted very well and grown very long thats why we cut it. a few patches are quite bare but i will re seed these parts in a few weeks if they dont grow back. its the fact that its gone from lush long green grass to yellowy illuminous colour that worries me. the grass looks like it is very young shoots and thank god we havent had any strong sun and hope we dont get any! im praying it recovers!

 

Hanna, if it`s only been down two or three weeks why are you cutting it and feeding it? Leave it to establish for a couple of MONTHS.DO NOT cut, DO NOT feed.:lollol::lollol::gnthb: