1. What are some abiotic factors on which your plant depends for its survival? What about biotic factors that affect your plant? Describe some of these factors.  Same abiotic factors is water because present in the plants  to remain healthy, soil because its a combination of all difference organic and inorganic matter.
2. How do you know your plants are engaged in competition? For what are your plants competing, and who is the competition?  You'll know if your plant is engaged in competition whenever two niches overlap, competition in resources  by two organisms.
3. How are "winners" and "losers" determined in this struggle? Is it always so clear cut who "wins" and who "loses?" What makes that determination complicated sometimes?  You can determined who's the winners and losers by seeing who has more resources and who has more nutrients. You can tell who's the winners and losers by looking at the outside of plant and if they produce food u can see which one looks healthier.
4. Describe other types of interaction (besides competition) in which your plants are involved. Make sure to explain how this interaction affects each organism involved. It can also be a parasitism because the plant effects other plaint by getting the same resources.  
5. What evidence is there in the garden that succesion (or something like it) is occurring in the garden ecosystem? Does it seem more like primary or secondary succession? It seems more like secondary succession because it was growing from somewhere and it wasn't growing from a places where a seed can't grow from like a hot place and a really cold places.