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what would happen too plants in a garden if the ground surrounding the plants was saturated in sea water.?

what would happen too plants in a garden if the ground surrounding the plants was saturated in sea water.

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1. Tough tarts, plants. The salt water ion concentration would upset the osmotic balance of the plants and pull water from them rather than being a means of transporting water to the plants.
2. The salt in the water would make the area surounding the plant root into a very hypertonic solution, that would make the roots hypotonic in comparison. With osmosis water flows from a hypotonic to a hypertonic, as this is the case the water would be drawn out of the plant wilting it and mare than likely killing it, if hyperplasia took place in the cells, this is when the cell membrane pulls away from the cell wall because all the water is drawn out of the vacuole creating negative pressure in the cell causing the cell membrane to collapse in on it's self.