I have a big patch of St Aug in a lot I mow once a year (late winter) never
water or fertilize and while it does go brown sometimes during late summer
it is the lushest healthiest grass I have. Of course it's 8 inches tall
but consider it a "ground cover" and you're set.

Fred


Steve Ravet wrote in :

St. Augustine will crowd out the bermuda eventually. But you'll have to
water it in the summer, and you can't seed it. St. Augustine isn't as
thirsty as some people would have you believe, and it'll brown out a
little in the peak of the summer. There may be some zoysia or other
that would also do well, but my experience has been with St. Augustine.