Yeah, I played on turf a grand total of once - school cricket final - against a team who barely knew how to play cricket. Unfortunately all our batsmen were set up best to play on astroturf, and in taking one look at the opposition decided we had the match in the bag.
We're chasing 70-odd after I won the toss and fielded (in fairness, we'd won our previous 3 games on the strength of our bowling, but yep, I did a Nasser), on a pitch that looked like it had been transported directly from fifth-day Ahmedabad. I'm opening the batting (not through any semblance of skill, about 9 of our players thought they should be the number 3, so yeah). My dad's told me how turf plays compared to astroturf, and funnily enough the ball isn't bouncing all that much.
Opener falls early trying to hit the very mediocre opening bowler out of the attack, and I then proceed to watch batsmen numbers 3, 4 and 5 ignore all of my advice and play back to length balls, squaring themselves up in the process and being plumb lbw. We ended 3 runs short.
In my experience on hard wickets, my default action to a 'should I go forward or back' length is to go back. On actual turf, it is to go forward. And given turf is, by its very nature, more uneven than artificial pitches, I tried to avoid the typical 'swing through the line with hard hands while trusting the bounce' type of shots that often characterise park cricket batting.