New uses for old tools

Woman, 75, uses gardening tools to fill in potholes outside home in Scottish village

 

Lets hope she doubles down and plants some seeds therein.....

 

The council will be on her back soon telling her to replace the potholes.

 

I thought the use of gardening tools meant she had used old ones to bulk out the holes, not just that she's used tools to do the work.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but a fork, a spade/shovel and a rake are basically what a ground worker would use anyway?
Good luck to the lady, but I would have been more impressed with her using pruning shears and a lawnmower to do the job....or my original thought

 

Yes that's how I read it too, I was imagining trowels and secateurs and wondering how that could possibly help.