It has been two and a half weeks since we sowed the new grass in the top field. It seems to becoming on in leaps and bounds. No doubt the mixture of sunshine and showers recently has helped!
We seem to be costly picking up stones that are coming to the surface, as well as old clumps of dried out grass, but it is looking better by the day.
From what I can tell on the internet, the grass should be cut for the first time once it reaches 7.5cms and then it should only be cut to remove no more than 30%. The grass should be watered straight after. I think the grass is only around 5cms, so we are going to leaving it for a couple of weeks and then cut it just before it rains. Hopefully this will increase the growth even further.
Sunshine and showers are great for growing grass! It really does look green in these photos! It has taken 2.5 weeks to get to this stage.