Stripey

Mr Egg said he bought a cockroach costume and then added “various French accoutrements”, including a beret, stripey top and a “necklace of garlic” to create the outfit.

Along with the crack of leather on willow and old boys taking afternoon snoozes in their linen slacks and loud stripey ties, the Tour for many is sight and sound of the summer.

The team even placed some caterpillars on striped dowels, and “they did go stripey,” Dr. Eacock said, although the sample size for that experiment was too small to include in the published work.

I’m planning for four tomato plants — Zebra, Mr. Stripey, German Johnson and plain ol’ red beefsteak.