This week’s question: An Australian woman has won the first-ever World’s Ugliest Lawn competition — launched to promote eco-friendly gardening — with her barren yard of withered grass, shriveled plants, and bandicoot holes. If Kathleen Murray were to write a book on her casual approach to yard maintenance, what should it be titled?
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THE WINNER: "Don’t Ask, Don’t Till"
Harry Bamberger, Utica, New York
SECOND PLACE: "Lawn of the Dead"
THIRD PLACE: "I Never Promised You a Hosed Garden"
Laurel Rose, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
"It’s Easy Not Being Green"
Erica Avery, Greenfield, Massachusetts
"I Fought the Lawn, and the Lawn Won"
John Parry, Eldersburg, Maryland
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"Lawn Order: Criminal Intent"
Mike Reiss, New York City, New York
"The Inconstant Gardener"
Joe Ayella, Wayne, Pennsylvania
"Say No Mow"
Larry Rifkin, Glastonbury, Connecticut
"Live And Let Die"
"Garden of Heathen"
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