self watering bucket garden/hydroponics/first hugalculture raised beds

See link for my self watering bucket garden/hydroponics/first hugalculture raised beds.
Just so you know I am a long time gardener but this stuff is easy for beginners as well as experienced.

https://photos.app.goo.gl/FAdAvxtceugvDfn6A

How I made them.

https://photos.app.goo.gl/TjKLwWbskFESyKvy7

I don't click links so it would be nice if you described how you made these buckets.

Just a helpful hint:

https://permies.com/wiki/61133/Post-Image-Permies

Anthony, I see you use solo cups to create the void for your reservoirs.
I would not have thought they would be strong enough, but it obviously works!

I get how sub irrigated buckets are similar to hydroponics,but I'm missing hugel connection.

I do use two cups together and 4 sets. 3 works ok but 4 is very strong support.

For another gardeneer using this method look at "Gardening with Leon" on You Tube
https://www.bing.com/videos/riverview/relatedvideo?q=gardening+with+leon&&mid=F0FF940660E004739FB7F0FF940660E004739FB7&churl=https%3a%2f%2fwww.youtube.com%2fchannel%2fUCSDYs9sd2_BlLuWSiEr7TJQ&FORM=VAMGZC

Really enjoyed this video!  

I am now introduced to a new method that I plan to explore. Thanks (:

wow, the mature plants in the older buckets show that this is working great for you! what are you doing for soil mix in those? I'm assuming the central container that sticks down through the bucket lid fills with soil and the soil is enough to wick water from the reservoir up to the main body of the soil?

How far into the water reservoir do you get roots by the end of the season? I'm pondering whether using a bulkhead instead of the overflow pipe would allow a bunch of buckets to share a water table and all be watered at once, which would be easy if the roots don't like passing through what i assume would be an anaerobic zone of soil below the waterline, but much trickier if they get further than that.

And getting them up high like that looks like it'd both discourage visits from little ground-dwelling herbivores of all stripes, while also being much kinder to your back.

for those who don't click out into strange albums, I've tried to attach a screencap of the shared album

Yes these work well. One version was that one bucket had a little float and all buckets were plumb and connected. That way I just kept the "feeder" bucket filled with water and the float let water into the system as the plants used up the water.
As to the soil I have bought soil but only to start. I make my own compost and I recompost the soil in the bucket at the end of the season and put in new.
I do not see roots going into the water reserve but some do go deep.
There are so many versions of this system mine works for me.
This year I want to try moving my buckets into my new greenhouse I will be building and see if I can grow throughout the winter.