The Week contest: Grubby garden
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"
Dave Grossman, Petaluma, California
THIRD PLACE: "I Never Promised You a Hosed Garden"
Laurel Rose, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
HONORABLE MENTIONS:
"It’s Easy Not Being Green"
Erica Avery, Greenfield, Massachusetts
"I Fought the Lawn, and the Lawn Won"
John Parry, Eldersburg, Maryland
"Zen and the Art of Lawncare Negligence"
William S. Michaels, North Canton, Ohio
"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"
Lidia Zidik, Reading, Pennsylvania
"Garden of Heathen"
Barry Cutler, Palm Desert, California
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