It is awards season in the land of garden blogs and Garden Variety is asking you to show her some lo-o-o-ve!

Colleen Vanderlinden, organic gardening columnist for About.com and founder of the Mouse & Trowel Awards for garden blogging, has added new  categories this year -- all the better to spread the glory like, well, mulch.

And they include categories into which Garden Variety fits nicely: Best new garden blog (we launched in March, 2009) and best blogger to follow on Twitter (I only think in 140 characters.)

I have some thoughts on my best post of the year, as long as you are asking.

Voting continues until April 30, when a new round of voting on finalists begins.

So, get out there and vote. If not for me, for the garden bloggers you love. It is your civic duty.