• Multipurpose garden tools conserve space while still performing different garden tasks.Jupiterimages/Creatas/Getty Images
  
  If you are just starting your garden toolkit but don't have a lot of space, then you want to purchase some tools that can perform multiple jobs. These tools combine the features of different individual tools, saving you space. Plus, these are common tools that you can find at a local garage sale or thrift store, eliminating the need to purchase them at expensive home improvement stores.
  
  

Rake

• A rake head features multiple blunt teeth, set at the end of either a wood or fiberglass handle. While there are different types of rakes, the bow rake does multiple jobs. This rake has thick teeth that you can use to rake up leaves and manipulate and level soil. You can also use this tool to create lines for seeds, or to pull up rocks and debris from your lawn and garden bed. At the opposite end of the rake's teeth is a flat area used to cover seeds and spread around mulch, fertilizer and soil.
  
  

Hori-Hori

• The Hori-Hori or Japanese weeding knife is a multipurpose tool for weeding, planting, cutting and transplanting. The blade of the Hori-Hori has a slight scoop, which helps you remove small plants for transplanting. Use the blade to break through soil and dig out holes for planting bulbs or seedlings, and to break up rootballs. The blade's edges cut off small leaves or branches from existing plants, and cut up weed roots either underground or between walls or crevices. The blade can also reach under weeds and pull out them out from the roots.
  
  

Hoe

• A garden hoe generally has a long shaft with either a wide, dull or triangular head. The shaft is either wood or fiberglass. Garden hoes help you with multiple tasks. Use the sharp corner of this tool's blade to dig out weeds hidden in hard to get to places and make small holes for bulbs or plants. Smooth out soil, fertilizer or mulch with the flat blade head. You can also use it to create rows between plants or within vegetable gardens or dig out rocks or debris from your garden.
  
  

Spading Fork

• A spading fork looks similar to a pitchfork, except that the tines -- blades -- are not as sharp, and it is also smaller. Spading forks generally have two to three tines. Use it to create furrows in the ground for planting seeds by dragging the tines through the soil. Or, use it to dig up weeds from the roots; break up compact soil; or unearth rocks from within the soil. Use it as you would a rake to gather up debris and leaves.