sprung in Bermuda.

Gardeners around the Island should be busy planting seeds and plants in order to take full advantage of the old adage, `April showers brings May flowers'.

The Department of Agriculture and Fisheries recommends the following flowers and vegetables be planted in the month of April: Vegetables: Beans, carrots, christophine, corn, cucumber, eggplant, okra, pepper, pumpkin, squash, sweet potatoes, tomatoes and watercress; and Flowers: Alyssum, aster, bachelor's buttons, bird's eyes, begonia, bells of Ireland, carnation, chrysanthemum, dahlia, African daisy, forget-me-not, geranium, gerbera, gyposphila, hollyhock, larkspur, marigold (African and French), nasturtium, pansy, petunia, phlox, statice, spider flower (cleome), stock, sweet pea, sweet William, verbena and viola.