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Why go and spend a fortune on new tools in the nursery if it is likely an abundance of unused items stored unused in your own kitchen, or someone you know kitchen, which is more than sufficient to do the exact job you want, without spending a cent.
Just make sure that everything is not taken out of the kitchen really wanted it. And the fact that such matters is permanently on a one-way journey from the garden shed.
Here are just a few suggestions of stuff that are useful kitchen refugees
Old dinner knife for digging weeds from between the sections or concrete pavers.
Old kitchen fork for light weeding in some tight spots or where you do not want to disturb root systems that are close to the surface.
Good sharp kitchen knife or a pair of kitchen scissors are great division produces clumps of plants or cuttings from a branch.
Kitchen tongs can be used to pick thorny cuttings or to help you repot be thorny plants such as cacti.
Place mats or serving tray to keep things organized, or produce for the organization, cuttings or even weeds.
Potato masher to push past a sensitive plant or rose.
BBQ or Carving root vegies forks for digging out stubborn weeds and roots.
Kitchen funnel for filling of various liquids in containers or for precise casting around plants. to get or seed or even small screws and nails in storage packages or bottles.
Chopsticks make work assignments to large pot (metal and wooden skewers), or kits for some jobs.
I saw, cut bamboo placemats and chopsticks to scene pieces for bonsai planters to make with old aquarium ornaments.
Set of measuring cups and measuring spoons are big as shovels to fertilizer and potting soil mixes.
Icecream or soup spoon for measuring and scooping potting soil mix with new potted plants.
Egg rings and biscuit cutters for the design of the cultivation of fruit just for fun, or as a simple handheld hoe for weeding in light plants.
So theres a few things that can get a second life, in which, covered parking and a garden, instead of being use for years in a drawer, stored or thrown or handed to a charity shop.

There is a strong belief among many people, the Australian aborigines are beautiful, but have no fragrance. A walk through the bush will dispel this rumor easy.
The fragrance of crushed leaves and fragrant flowers can be almost overwhelming at times. But many of the natives have a more subtle fragrance, you need them to be closer at the right time to know the flavors and fragrances to appreciate.
The scent of native plants is often produced at different times of day or night. Fragrant flowers include many of the native Grevilleas (Some Like biternata G. buxifolia and GG a strong honey-like perfume did others such as G. buxifolia a light fragrance perfume), Boronias (eg B. floribunda, B. and B. serrulata mega stigmatic) , Sowerbaeas (Vanilla Lilies), Xanthoreas (Grass Trees), banksias, Eleaocarpus reticulatus (Blueberry Ash), the strong smell, almost anise, Hakeas, Pittosporum undulatum (Native Daphne) – the smell of this kind can always be overwhelming in the HAS evening – , Leptospermum species (eg L. flavescens), Homoranthus species (a baked biscuit aroma) and Hymenosporum flavum (Native Frangipani). Many of the white flowering eucalyptus trees, Melaleuca and Callistemon species have a strong honey scent.
There are a number of fragrant orchids, especially the Dendrobium species: these are usually the most from early morning to early afternoon. While some of the Cymbidium species such as C. Suave a good perfume in the middle of the day have). The Sarcochilus species have what is best described as a spicy aroma.
The aroma released by some plants foliage is not revealed until it was broken, crushed or brushed against. These include the Backhousia citriodora (Lemon Myrtle), which is probably the best of all native lemon fragrance and is also commercially used as a cooking ingredient, while the leaves of B. anisata is strongly scented like anise Eremophilas, Eriostemon species Theras prose,
Leptospermum petersoni (lemon scented tea tree – also good as a hedging plant), Darwinia citriodora (a light lemon fragrance) and some Melaleucas (Paper Barks) also have scents.
Of course you can not forget is the eucalyptus family, with its famous eucalyptus fragrance, the scent of our bushland. But now in many other countries, huge plantations of them for timber, firewood and greening programs grow on every continent bar Antarctica. One way the E. citriodora exudes a strong lemon-eucalyptus scent comes in agonist flexuosa is a combination of eucalyptus and peppermint scent.
Calomeria elegans has been used as a substitute for lavender. Some species also have Boronias strongly scented leaves.
And let us not forget the grassy plants that Lomandra’s trees and grass, which both give a pleasant sweetish smell when in flower.
Why not think so, on the use of native fragrant plants in your garden. Not only will you get the benefits of supporting your local area. But you could also receive other benefits, such as birds attract other animals and butterflies in your garden.