I am disposed to think that, in a Little Garden, there is nothing like a weeding woman with an old knife and a little salt afterwards.

It is also advisable to be your own weeding woman, that you may be sure that the weeds come up by the roots! Next to the cast-iron back before mentioned, I recommend a housemaid's kneeling mat (such as is used for scrubbing floors), as a gardener's comfort.
I hope, if you have been bulb planting, that you got them all in by Lord Mayor's Day.

Whether bulbs should be planted deep or shallow is another "vexed question." In a Little Garden, where you don't want to disturb them, and may like to plant out some small-rooted annuals on the top of them later on, I should plant deep.
If you are planting roses, remember that two or three, carefully planted in good stuff that goes deep, will pay you better than six times the number stuck _into a hole_ in cold clay or sand or builders' rubbish, and left to push their rootlets as best they can, or perish in the attempt.

Spread out these rootlets very tenderly when planting.
You will reap the reward of your gentleness in flowers.

Rose roots don't like being squeezed, like a Chinese lady's feet.