- backset
- beat the bushes
- bore
- break
- burrow
- carve
- chisel
- crack
- cultivate
- culture
- cut
- delve
- dig
- dig out
- dig up
- dike
- ditch
- draw
- dredge
- dress
- drill
- drive
- engrave
- excavate
- explore
- fallow
- fertilize
- forage
- force
- frisk
- furrow
- go through
- gouge
- gouge out
- groove
- grub
- harrow
- hoe
- hole
- hunt
- incise
- list
- look around
- look round
- look through
- lower
- mine
- mulch
- nose around
- plow
- poke
- poke around
- prune
- pry
- quarry
- rake
- research
- root
- run
- sap
- scoop
- scoop out
- scrabble
- scrape
- scratch
- search
- search through
- shovel
- sink
- smell around
- spade
- thin
- thin out
- till
- till the soil
- trench
- trough
- tunnel
- weed
- weed out
- work