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I guess its easier for kids to play on plastic than cactuses
you ever been on one of those plastic lawns in the hot summer? They will blister your bare feet.
Tbh you were on some cheap shit. Good fake stuff feels mostly fine even down in the US south.
If you don't live in an actual desert, there's probably some local plant you can use as a groundcover which will cushion your kids when they fall. In my area for instance carex pansa (sand dune sedge) is popular. You might be growing some local sedge or ground over now, only you think of it as a weed. The first thing to do is to stop thinking of a uniform surface as the goal. Think meadow rather than lawn. If you painted a picture would you have a swath of flat green without nuance? Even if your kids are playing sports out there, so you need to trim it to a few inches all over, it's still better for the environment to use native plants. And even tolerate the non-natives like dandelions rather than spread poison. Obviously you don't want poison ivy or puncturevine, anything that can harm your kids.
Fr some people want to use their backyard for more than just looking like a fine botanical garden.
Edit: fuck plastic
I grew up in wild places and it was really good there's options for ground cover other than grass there's things to do with ground other than just cover it
Fake grass kind of sucks to play on tbh. Plenty of low height ground cover plant options to use instead, including grasses.