If you till, wait until the soil is warm and dry enough. If the soil stays together in a ball, it is too wet to till.

Once it reaches the surface of the soil, the slug undergoes another transformation: Most of the cells turn into a stiff stalk, while the others crawl to the top and form a sticky ball of spores.

Five paces from him the dry soil was thrown up , as a cannon ball sank into the earth.