Would should someone replace St Augustine with that can handle foot traffic and is grass. Some of these alternatives to grass aren'tt going to work for people with small children.

Miker - Don't replace it with anything. It's called weeds and looks like a lawn from a distance, except during times of drought it gets a little dry looking, but also requires less mowing. My front and back lawn of weeds looks great especially when freshly mowed - seriously. It also feels great beneath bare feet with no sand spurs, and friends' kids that come over do just fine wrestling around in it. There is no excuse or no need to put anything other than rainwater on your property's vegetation, including groundwater. Put up two rainbarrels (even though I've heard it's illegal), and that will suffice for all your plant watering needs. I agree with the irony of the masses relying and playing in the natural environment, yet insist on sucking the high quality aquifers dry (some use reclaimed) and dumping chemicals on their lawn -all for what??

Cool, but that didn't really answer my question. I said it has to be grass.

My parents are lawn freaks. I've been trying to convince them to just quit making it look perfect, leave it alone weeds and whatever, and schedule their mowing at reasonable intervals so it doesn't look neglected. But each Saturday, especially in August, at high noon, they'll be out there, re-sodding and fertilizing.

Bermuda or zoysia?