Help! Newly turfed lawn not establishing (with pic)

Moved in to a new house last July. Lawn was newly turfed and set down fine. Now this summer the left hand side which does not get as nearly as much sun is patchy at best. The right side is fine (and thriving). I am watering and feeding both sides well. Is the left side becoming waterlogged after not getting the sun? The garden slopes towards the camera.

I'm at a bit of a loss so any pointers would be massively appreciated

Dom

 

Just looks a bit thin to me, unless your living in North Africa, I doubt any watering would have been necessary this year as yet.
Think I would just mow regularly and see what happens.

Was it layed on a decent top soil?

 

Thanks - no I'm in the UK

Will back off on the watering!

 

This might not apply here, but there's "turf and turf."

Most garden centres buy it by the pallet load. This could be a couple of days in transit and then be sitting for a number of days in hot sun at a garden centre or B&Q for a few days. So when I've wanted turf I've tried to find out the delivery day and arrive on that day to get some "fresh" rolls. I've also seen some which is a bit thin on density of grass. Could this be the case here?
When laying turf I always "rough up" the underside as it's cut mechanically and usually very smooth. I also make sure if I'm replacing an area in the lawn I "rough up" the base before laying, walk all over the area and then hammer the edges down with a lump hammer with a short length of 3" X 2" and still sometimes the odd piece doesn't take. Coincidently I had to go to B&Q this morning for a roll for a small piece as I'd caught a small piece with my scarifier this morning.
The full run of about four rolls adjacent to my new block pavers which separate the lawn from the border, was laid a week before this photo was taken last week.
It's doing very well It's been watered most days and has had some lawn food. It was £2.58 a roll in B&Q.
The density of the grass is very good.

 

There's a fine line between too little and too much water.
What you need to do is to encourage the roots of the new grass to go down looking for water, but at the same time preventing the turf from drying out. In my garden as is the surrounding area, the soil is very sandy being on the "alluvial plain" of the Mersey Valley, so it drains very rapidly.

 

Q: Part of my lawn is in heavy shade. How can I keep grass growing there?
A: Grass does not like heavy shade, and grows tall and thin in lighter shade. It will help to cut the shaded grass longer (but just as frequently) than grass that lies in full sun. You can also help the shaded grass by feeding it more regularly. Unfortunately, in the worst areas, the only real solution is to returf or reseed regularly or find an alternative to natural grass.


I found this on a website as i'm laying my new lawn tomorrow and trying to find all the help i can get (i'm a bit scared! :hehe
Hope you get your's sorted out!