advice on our terrible turf

[petiteHBB]

Hello,

Our new turf didn't survive the heat wave (I know it's our fault not taking good care of it. We are very inexperienced). Some parts have new grass coming but most is dead i think. Can anyone give us some advice? is it better to replace them, again, or is there any point trying to save it like re-seeding in autumn or spring? and some silly questions: why are the gaps better individual turfs so big? is it because it's too dry or they were not placed well in the first place?

Many thanks!

All turf is going to have struggled this year. They need good watering in, daily for several weeks. They csns would/should fill out as the grass grows, but are obvious because yours never grew in the first place.

You could resue this, it will take lots of time and afford though. I'd say 2h spinking twice a day (dawn and dusk). The bits that do grown will eventually spread. It'll take a hood year of effort though.

It looks like a small space, personally I'd just start again with new turf. Buy a sprinkler attachment for your hose and don't buy turf during a hosepipe ban or drought.

csns = gaps

We laid turf right at the start of the heatwave. It arrived the day we hit 38 degrees. Poor DH had a day laying the stuff!

We did use a sprinkler at least once a day throughout altho cut that back the last few weeks. We still give it a good drink every day, and it's mostly green but with quite a lot of dry patches. It is starting to recover already though - I have been lightly scattering seed throughout. You probably can rescue it but really I would start again.

That's pretty much a goner and would take so much work and effort to bring round it really wouldn't be worth it. I'd lay some new turf in about mid-September if I were you.

There shouldn't be gaps like that actually, the turves are supposed to be laid tight up against one another without gaps, but it looks like yours have shrunk as they have dried out.

Thanks a lot for all the comments and suggestions! Very helpful for us and we'll redo it when the weather permits.😅