Is everyone’s grass going brown and patchy?

[HouseNewbie]

We replaced the dreaded astroturf with real turf over Easter. Watered it daily and it soon grew lush and green. Lovely.

Well, we haven’t had any rain for 2-3 weeks now and it’s started to go a bit brown in patches which is such a shame. We’ve been watering it in the evenings but maybe not enough? Is there anything we can do other than water it more?

Bump

It will go back green when we have some rain. Not much you can do really.

We've been watering it, so it's green, but hoping for some rain soon!

We keep ours well watered with a sprinkler. It's true that it will green-up when the weather gets wetter again, but one of the nicest things about having a lawn is having it lush and green in the heat of summer. Having it lush and green in March is not quite so good

It’s not forecasted to rain here for at least the next ten days so should we douse it with the sprinkler every evening? Perhaps a lot more than we have been doing?

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/shortcuts/2021/jun/02/brown-lawns-grass-should-not-always-be-greener

Do some people not know anything about plants....clearly not. Shrubs with deeper roots will be fine. they might lose some leaves but that's the plants way of surviving. You probably wouldn't have put bedding in yet and if you have then that will need frequent watering cos they haven't got much of a root system. Grass, on the other hand will dry off at the surface . It does not need watering AT ALL. As soon as the heavens open the brown dry crispy grass will recover in no time. Look back on line at the summer of 1976. No rain for months not weeks!

I sprinkle each ‘section’ of my lawn for half an hour and this seems to work really well for us, I only need to do it a few times a week, just pop it on, set a timer for 30 mins and then move it (although this is v. Annoying when trying to relax of an evening with a dog/cat on your lap and have to keep getting up !)

Not yet.

Grass recovers really well after some rain. Seems such a waste of water to constantly water it. I just let mine go brown , at least I don't have to mow it then.

It will bounce back in a few days once it rains. Don’t worry about it.

I don't like wasting water on my lawn but yours is new and you should be soaking it

New lawns need lots of water to establish. So, yes, sprinkler is appropriate. Any other lawn does not need to be watered at all. It's a complete waste of resource. It will always come back. Keep it longer when it's dry too, as this helps retain any moisture from the air.

Keeping it longer keeps the moisture in. My neighbours have a brown wasteland but ours is green - part 'meadow' last mowed in March, part paths around/through the meadow.
If a meadow isn't your thing you could just use the longest lawnmower setting (after the grass is established) and save tap water by putting used bath water/shower water on it.

We do ours two or three times a week, but as others have said, if yours is new maybe more watering required (unless you come round to the brown look).