Trying to Save my Trees

There hasn't been rain. No rain, at all, and nothing significant in the forecast. 

I planted over 370 seedlings. They are dying. Some are brown, others are green but stiff. It may be too late. 

The seedlings are all planted in shallow trenches, each tree in it's own little hump of dirt. Supposedly this will help retain water, if it rains. The ones in the yard I can reach with a hose, and we have been soaking the trenches for the last few days. Hopefully we weren't too late for most of those. 

The words tube end in red is the water source

The majority though are in two 1000 foot long trenches along the road, far away from our well. They've been without water for over 3 weeks in unseasonably hot weather. Today Hal dug out some unused maple sap tubing, bought a fitting and connected it to all the hoses we owned and got the pipe to one of the trenches. It was running a couple hours when I took this photo. As you can see, it's barely covered 10 feet of 2000 feet of trench. The stupid humps are impeding the flow, and the flow, this far away from the well head which is relying sorely on the pressure from the aquifer, as there is no pump installed yet, is minimal, but it is flowing. So we wait.

It's going into the 90s the next few days. I suppose if it saves even 1 tree, it was worth the effort though I wish we'd thought of this sooner.