Hi everyone:

I'm hoping someone here can help with a little problem we have
encountered with our new sod..firstly, our sod was laid over two days,
we did not start watering until the day after...I was told after the
fact that it should have been done within two hours of it being
laid...new house, new sod, never had any experience so we just started
watering in the evening like you would with grass. Well of course my
entire lawn, the next door neighbours, pretty much the entire street
with exception of one house all have nice yellow lawns with green
patches...the day it was laid it appeared a grey and blue/green like
colour...not a rich kelly green like I was expecting..anyway, after
about the 4th day of it being laid I pointed out to the landscapers
that the lawn looks like crap, and what should we be doing...I was
only told to keep watering it...well we have had water on it for days
now (8 hours yesterday)and it looks just terrible...you can't step on
it because you will sink and in order to get the sprinkler in the
middle of the lawn, we have no choice, so now the sod really looks
like crap because it has moved and is a lovely flourecent yellow with
little bits of green popping up here and there....does anyone have an
opinion of what went wrong....did in fact not watering it within 2
hours cause the sod to die so to speak..I could see if in fact we were
the only ones with trouble, but the whole street looks terrible and if
it wasn't watered enough how is the green patchy areas living....and
lastly, i threw some seeds down on top, hoping this will help, (it had
no chemicals)... is there any other advice on how I can "bring back"
or save this mess, or should I be bringing in another expert to test
the soil that was used underneath...was it possible that sub quality
sod was used and I should be demanding new sod of higher quality or
was it indeed our fault for not watering within 2 hours...thank you in
advance for any help or suggestions you expert gardeners :-) may have.
Oh, just so you know, it was laid a week ago today...it went that
quickly. (the weather was cloudy on the two days it was laid...mostly
sunny for the next 4 days, cloudy yesterday and it is raining here
today in southern Ontario, Canada.)

Sincerely,

Shelli
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