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Direct application drip is truly one of the best styles of watering, however it's one of the most problematic and higher maintence.

How far spacing will the zig zags be?

I would recommend Netafim
It's a soaker line that has an emitter every 12" that will evenly disperse water. They usually come in rolls of 100' and 300' sold at your local Irrigation supply store ( Not Lowes / home depot) . Pick up some landscape staples, some netafim barbed fittings and your set. There are several ways to install netafim but for a border line you can either run a single line or loop the line weaving in and out of the plants to have a double row criss crossing .

If you can extend the 3/4" line to the other side of the of the tree's (200' away) and connect the line to both end points to help on even distribution uniformity

If the trees are to be planted in bare ground that will be heavily mulched, then you can use the emitter tubing or even get fancy and use discrete emitters plugged into distribution tubing, which is more elaborate and more expensive, but which does give you a greater choice of water delivery rates, along with the ability to visually confirm the operation of each emitter.

The link you gave is exactly the same stuff just a different brand.. From memory in my experience the hunter drip techline is a little less flexible and a little more prone to kinking. I could be wrong though.. If it kinks you just take channel locks and squeeze the kink out.

That's exactly what I mean with the 3/4" line. It's not the most important thing in the world, but if it's easy for you then do it. What will happen with a single source of water into the netafim ( Even tho the emitters have even DU) after a few years you will see some of the tree's growing taller then the other. If you have water entering both ends of the dripline this will help on evenly dispersing water from the emitters.

As far as fittings go for the netafim, All you really need is a coupler or 2 to connect the rolls together. And maybe a few male adapater's for the poly to netafim hook ups

Netafim can be mulched, and as boots said you can have direct drip application install to each tree.. This is more expensive and more prone to issues/ higher maintence. Though it's a better way to water.

The netafim you just roll it out and every few fee put a staple down every few feet to hold it in place.

Run down to your local irrigation supply store, explain to them what you are doing and have them show you how to connect netafim fittings together. It's really easy

the Netafim website should have some tech info so you can see if feeding it from the end would be a problem. One reason to go with discrete emitters is to make full use of a separate zone's available flow, which the emitter tubing will probably not do.. This is important if you have a limited time window for your watering.