That is acceptable, but I do not like direct burial cable. Sooner or later it will likely get damaged. You will already have the ditch, so go ahead and run cheap pvc conduit. Put a j box at the bottom of the poles (2 conduits down and 1 up). Use a fish tape and THHN single conductor wire.
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Here is a picture of series vs parallel wiring. When multiple lights or outlets are wired together on one switch or circuit, they are in parallel. People often call this a series, but that's incorrect terminology from an electrical point of view. Perhaps a "string" would be a better description.
So. I run a UF wire (black and white) to the floodlight which has a black/white pigtail. I attach the 3 black wires (wire in, pigtail on light, and the wire out) together and the 3 white wires together. Then I run the UF wire to the next light and do the same. At the end the 1 black and 1 white (from UF wire) attaches to the last light. Is this in “series” or “parallel”? If I unscrew the middle bulb, the other two still work so I assume this is considered “parallel”. Is that correct?
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