concur; Unless you are trying salt tolerant plants, I see no need for sodium content.

Well you could up the levels to get more salty tomatoes.

Joking of course

That would be a sad reality with Texas heat and table salt on the leaves of the plants.....Fried green tomatoes!!

So maybe I ought to go sprinkling table salt on my bed.

At least then you wouldn't have a slug problem. ;-)

Yea, verily. I've seen beautiful slug free gardens that didn't have any live plants also!

If you felt that you needed it, horse stall bedding - or urine from any source - usually has enough sodium to meet the little need plants have for sodium.

That's true that many fresh manures are 5-10% sodium chloride. But composted manure, which is what is commercially available, doesn't have that much. That being said, I'm suspecting that table salt is cheaper than manure per unit sodium atom.

Sodium content can vary pretty widely without detriment. I f low sodium really concerns you, then use Nitrate of Soda (NaNO3) on your nitrate loving plants. This was one of the first commercial fertilizers, Mined in Chile. Very popular in the early 20 century . Today most farmers use Ammonium Nitrate or Urea which has a much higher N component.

"I'm suspecting that table salt is cheaper than manure per unit sodium atom."

Cost-wise, lol, it's tough to beat peeing in a cup.

Yes, but unless you have a lot of people helping you, that won't be the fast way. Unless maybe you subsist on a diet of Fritos.

Oh yes, I'm sorry, I was commenting under, and neglected to restate, the already established idea that unless you are trying to grow salt-tolerant plants, there's no reason to be in a hurry.

I'm not recommending it (and it's not cheap unless you live by the ocean), but if you're going to add sodium you might as well do it in the form of something like sea minerals (as opposed to table salt) and get the other benefits of it. I've tried those. Yes, sodium can sometimes actually make certain parts of certain plants taste salty, but not the whole plant or the whole fruit. I've had Blacktail Mountain watermelon with a salty taste near the rind, and salty tasting radish leaf stems. I did give the watermelon sea minerals, but not the radishes (I'm still trying to figure out how they got salty). No, the radishes didn't bulb much (this year), but it was a good year for watermelon, when I did it in 2016.

A little pickling salt made my indoor pepper less tempermental about watering, and seemed to deter the spider mites. You really shouldn't overdo it, though. Wood ash seems to deter spider mites better.

I think it was resolved that plants don't really need sodium. But yes, there are many great ways to add things to soil that plants don't need.