Overall 2012 was a great success on the rooftop. Tomatoes and peppers were prolific other than the Brandy Wine. Cucumbers and zucchini had very poor yield. Because my sister and niece both grown zucchini in containers I don't think the container is this issue per se - it may be lack of nutrients (more on this later) or the wind on the roof. I'm not giving up on them yet and will try again this year!
On a whim I also grew a shallot - which was massive, one half of it was nearly as big as my rather large coffee cup!
I put the water soluble fertilizer into the float bucket and because of how the buckets were connected to the irrigation system the first two tomato plants (which were connected in series) got more fertilizer than other plants. I think this might have been the problem with the Brandy Wine tomato and the zucchini & cucumbers.
We - and by we I mean Martin has fixed this problem so that fertilizer gets distributed evenly hoping that in 2013 I might finally overcome my total failure at zucchini and cucumbers!
