Salty tea blues

My gardener figured out what was the matter and is working on a solution. It is the sour tea that we feed on. He told me it will take a week before the new tea is ready; these encouraging words are helping Broccoli, Sunflower and me to hold on. In the meantime, we have been repotted into new plastic bags and have a strict water-only diet. I understand when Gardener gets sick, sometimes he has to go on such a diet. The compost tea is made mostly from vegetable scraps from their food pouches. He said their food has a lot of sodium in it, up to 1000 milligrams per serving and they eat 10 to 12 servings per day. This salt ends up in the compost tea and then goes into our roots. Creatures living on land are different from those whose origin came from the sea. Sodium salts are very soluble in water and wash out from the soil thus ending up in the ocean. Potassium salts are less soluble and stay in the soil. Creatures that originated in the ocean live with sodium and use it for their essential membrane transport processes. Creatures that originated on the land use potassium and find high levels of sodium toxic. Ocean creatures, when they walk on the land, have to carry their sodium with them in their bodies. Interesting how creatures adapt to what is found in their environment and what works well for one is toxic to the other. Gardener has placed us all on a no-sodium diet and the new compost tea will be that way as well.