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Salt water sucks water out of plants - try this - get an onion, cut it in half and sprinkle salt on one half - leave it for 30 mins. then look at both halves. You will see that where you put the salt, the half onion will be sitting in a pool of water. The effect is called OSMOSIS. So salt interferes with the plants ability to take up water.

In the past, in times of war, if you wanted to cause a famine you would salt the earth in your enemies fields so that they could not grow crops.

Plants that can live in salt water or salty conditions are very specialized.

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