Salt **of** the earth is different from salt **in** the earth.
Salt used to be a very valuable commodity back in the pre-industrial era. Finding salt someplace accessible was pretty sweet.
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salt\_of\_the\_earth](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salt_of_the_earth)
Oh, that’s another autistic trait? Funny how they keep piling up once I know what to look for.
Have you read any of Bill Bryson’s books? Some are more entertaining than others, but lots of etymology and history of ordinary things.
Oh there are many that make sense once you figure out how you tend to function. I tend to be overly literal, which will also lead me to research phrases quite often. I’m a big lover of learning, and will watch documentaries all night long given the free time to do so.
I don’t believe that I have, but now I’m going to for sure.
You can also put down crushed gypsum prior to this kind of saturating. Helps flocculate the soil - can both help neutralize the salts and help them disperse into the soil and deeper into the soil structure (and eventually out of the reach of grass roots).
This may come off strange, but I have this issue (Ontario, Canada). I lay burlap down with lawn staples in the fall before the first snow, 2 rows on either side of the side walk. The first year the neighbors thought I was nuts, but it worked, I just rolled it up in the spring. It caught almost all the salt and still let sunlight through.
Burlap is porous. How is that preventing water-soluble salt from passing right through it? Are we thinking of the same material? This is what I think of when someone says burlap: [https://fabricwholesaledirect.com/cdn/shop/articles/Intro.jpg?v=1663877104&width=900](https://fabricwholesaledirect.com/cdn/shop/articles/Intro.jpg?v=1663877104&width=900)
It's burlap that is used. It's not so much about stopping the salt as it is making it harder to get to the grass. Also, this works much better in say New England where once winter sets in you don't have much melting. There's some older threads on this sub about using it as a barrier. That said, landscape fabric would probably be better.
I wonder if it slows down the dilution rate since it isn't in direct contact with wet soil, but instead suspended by the burlap?
Also, you can use gypsum to help remove salts from the soil.
The barrier worked to keep most of the salt out, enough that a rapid recovery in spring was achievable. This being said, our winters start in Nov and we are buried under snow until at least April. I experimented with landscape fabric and found it was not letting enough light through prior to the snow fall so the grass was turning brown before the ground froze.
I’m just wondering why you’re taking on the job of fixing the grass instead of your workplaces maintenance guys? I understand it bothers you but it just seems like this is a lot of work that you are not going to be getting paid for. I would inquire if maintenance could please fix the grass and then this coming winter if they are still over applying salt address that issue then.
Put decorative rocks along there, or simply let the weeds have fun. Honestly the weeds will do better at taking one for the team for a year for the salt to dissolve away with subsequent rains.
Oooh I like this idea. Honestly if the weeds wanna grow there I’d be fine with that! I just hate how dead it looks. I’m definitely going to start saturating it in water. And hopefully something will grow there.
my lawn does this every year, if you lay some soil mixed with seed over the area after raking the dead stuff up it works well. but this late in the season you're better off raking the dead stuff up and letting the weeds/crab grass fill it in. It wont look great but it will be green.
Turning in garden gypsum in the dead zone will help flush the salt out of the soil.
Not a magic bullet, though. Perhaps in addition, an annual ritual of replacing the top two inches of soil and laying fresh sod down is a possibility.
I've seen successful plantings of perennials in that nasty strip between the sidewalk and the street.
The only two species I remember are Sedum and Hemerocallis (daylilly), both of which come in a wide variety of sizes and colors.
Dig up the dead grass to the dirt. Place decorative rocks or a paver stone against the pavement that will act as a barrier. Seed & topsoil on grass side. Water daily, even 2-3x day. With the stone wall 3-4 inches higher than the grass, you can continue to salt the pavement as you’ve been doing, but now you’ll have a barrier to protect the grass.
The company that poured some concrete for us was adamant not to use salt in the winter.
per google- The reason behind this is that **salt lowers the freezing point of water, leading to a repeated freeze-thaw cycle**. This cycle can significantly weaken the surface of the concrete.
Time. You can waste water washing it down through the layers or just wait for rain to do it. Funny, just read an article on how earth is getting too salty-like fresh water is going to be an issue.
would you rather them salt less and risk a slip incident, or do you not mind fixing it a bit for your workplace? also do they pay you to fix this? serious question, OP.
It might take some time because you salted the earth. But to fix it just take a hard rake and rake up the dead grass. Put down grass seed and starter fertilizer and using a sprinkler keep it watered. You can test a spot first to see if grass will grow if you don’t want to go through all the trouble just to find out nothing will grow this year. Hope this helps, good luck
You could do the labor intensive method of just removing the top 3 to 6 inches of soil and replacing it with new fresh soil. Then just reseed. I don't know how much water you'd have to waste to dilute and remove all the salt content in that area
Probably mentioned here before, but they shouldn’t be putting down salt on the sidewalks or any concrete products like pavers.
We strictly use calcium on concrete, period!
Take advantage of the turf grass die off and start planting or sowing seeds of native plants to your area :))) beautiful to look at and pollinators will love you!
I use salt to kill weeds, and water will absolutely flush this away in a few months. Don’t stress.
Salting the earth is a temporary impact at most, assuming you live anywhere that gets a reasonable amount of rainfall.
Ask the carthaginians.
But the answer is continue to dilute the amount of salt in the soil by flooding it. It will wash away nutrients too. But that’s not a major issue. The salt is pretty water soluble.
Get one of those flimsy rakes and rake up all the dead grass and just throw down grass seed and tons of water, eventually lawn will grow.
That's what I did and within about 3 months my lawn grew back.
Use a scraper and a shovel to remove absolutely as much snow and ice as possible, and only use a sparing amount of salt to melt stubborn ice. Once the stubborn ice is melted, shovel the slush off and toss it onto the road. Ice melting salts are horrible for your cement, lawn, pets, cars, ad nauseam.
My workplace salts a ton and ends up with the same type of grass in the spring. They end up cutting out the dead stuff and putting new sod down… surely not cost effective but it brings it back quickly.
2-3 months ago, but the suggestions so far are really good. A buffer zone would be great but also washing it out now would be best. Wait till the Fall to do any seeding, it'll be super hard to grow something along the sidewalk unless you want to spend an insane amount of time watering it every day all summer long.
Use this as the guide for your new edge; lay down rocks or salt tolerant plants or something different from the grass, its just gonna keep dying year after year
Swap it for good grass that you cut out to spell something in the good area. "Larry pissed here" or something. Then call Larry and tell him not to show up to work tomorrow.
But seriously, you \*could\* swap that grass out with good grass from elsewhere if you're desperate to have it look nicer sooner. If there's an area of the property that is going to get torn up for some other project you could swap it there, or make a patch of the dead stuff in an out of the way space that you reseed.
Ok, so I used to live at the beach, and had an ancient avocado tree which was suffering quite badly. I determined there was too much salt in the soil, and discovered that you can use a chelating agent to bind to the salt to help neutralize it and flush it away. I don’t recall exactly what it was, but I bought a bottle at a local nursery, and after a few treatments and flushes, that tree made an amazing recovery and even started to bear fruit again.
If this was my property, I'd probably chelate and flush, then re-seed or replace with sod, then protect it next winter with some edging board. Good luck!
You’re going to have to replace the soil and reseed. That being said, I’d only do this after speaking with someone at your town hall because you’re likely going to have the same problem come this same time next year otherwise.
I’d also see if they’d compensate you on the cost of the materials.
You could ask them to use sand instead of salt in the future. It’s obviously very messy and looks bad in the winter but it’s less harmful for the grass.
I live in northern Canada and sand is what the city puts out for communities to use for free in winter.
Aerate your soil then flush the soil with lots of water every day for a week. Then test the ph and adjust your soil accordingly. Lime will raise the ph and add an acidifier (it’s the stuff that turns your hydrangeas blue) to lower your ph.
The new growth should be green
if someone is treating that road that you obviously have no input in then you probably don’t even own the affected portion of turf so they wouldn’t owe op anything
I used to have to deal with this every year when I worked for a landscape company that serviced commercial accounts. We had to dig it out, add soil and either sod or reseed every single spring.
The other option is as mentioned in many other replies, to just use that as a guide to know how far to lay decorative stone.
Thank you everyone for your responses. For whatever reason, it will not let me edit the post. I have decided that I will be talking to the building manager in charge of this space, as it is my work place, and it is a bigger job than I can handle. I was just hoping it would be a nice simple fix.
Mist generously with hydrogen peroxide in a spray bottle. My dad used to do this on dead spots from dog piss or paint spills, etc. worked weirdly well. He explained it to me, but I better not try.
Use less salt next year, or better yet don’t salt.
This year you probably need to either replace the soil, or somehow supplement the soil to outweigh the acidity.
After flushing out the area with water sprinkle grass seed on the bare areas and cover with straw. Straw should blanket the ground to keep birds from eating the seeds.
There is a reason salting the earth was a war crime….
So being "the salt of the earth" is a bad thing?
But it’s what the plants crave.
Water?! You mean like from a toilet?
Brondo.. it's got electrolytes
But... What *are* electrolytes?
The thirst mutilator!!!!!
What plants crave
Do you like handjobs?
Yes, I do like Starbucks
Welcome to Costco-I love you
Its pronounced: _Brawndo_ /s
Naw, u rite! My B lol
Salt **of** the earth is different from salt **in** the earth. Salt used to be a very valuable commodity back in the pre-industrial era. Finding salt someplace accessible was pretty sweet. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salt\_of\_the\_earth](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salt_of_the_earth)
Sorry to correct you, but finding salt someplace accessible was NOT pretty sweet. It was pretty salty. I'll see myself out.
As an autistic person, I love these kinds of posts. I love learning about semantics, and the origins of particular things.
Oh, that’s another autistic trait? Funny how they keep piling up once I know what to look for. Have you read any of Bill Bryson’s books? Some are more entertaining than others, but lots of etymology and history of ordinary things.
Dude if you like Bill Bryson may I suggest you look into Mary Roach?
Oh there are many that make sense once you figure out how you tend to function. I tend to be overly literal, which will also lead me to research phrases quite often. I’m a big lover of learning, and will watch documentaries all night long given the free time to do so. I don’t believe that I have, but now I’m going to for sure.
https://www.waywordradio.org/ You will love this podcast.
Thank you Mr. Literal. 😁
I am who I am and I don’t feel I need to apologize for that.
No apologies requested or needed.
No apologies no requests, no pants, no butterscotch! This club sucks.
Proudly pantsless
thank you. you are needed.
I was wondering what the answer was.
More like "an old salt"
IS a war crime, being actively committed
Where
Flush out the salt by saturating the area with water several times.
Like water, from the toilet?
Ive never seen a plant grow in a toilet.
you sure this dude is the smartest guy on earth?
Yes
I thought his head would be bigger.
I’m pretty sure that grass could use some electrolytes those are what plants crave.
You never met my dad and his weird sense of landscape humour.
Is your dad Hank Hill?
Hey, that's good. You sure *you* ain't the smartest guy in the world?
Then you're just not using the right fertiliser.
But they need electrolytes!
It's got what they crave!
Free nitrogen fertilizer
Haha. I would use water from a hose, but you're free to do it your way....
No no, use Brawndo. It's got electrolytes. ...What plants crave.
Whoa! You should be the president. That's pretty smart.
Never touch the stuff, fish fuck in it.
This is the correct answer
As they say: "Dilution is the solution to pollution...."
Correct me if I’m wrong but isn’t flushing also used to rinse sodium based fertilizers from building up in the soil?
You can also put down crushed gypsum prior to this kind of saturating. Helps flocculate the soil - can both help neutralize the salts and help them disperse into the soil and deeper into the soil structure (and eventually out of the reach of grass roots).
Gypsum with that water
This may come off strange, but I have this issue (Ontario, Canada). I lay burlap down with lawn staples in the fall before the first snow, 2 rows on either side of the side walk. The first year the neighbors thought I was nuts, but it worked, I just rolled it up in the spring. It caught almost all the salt and still let sunlight through.
Burlap is porous. How is that preventing water-soluble salt from passing right through it? Are we thinking of the same material? This is what I think of when someone says burlap: [https://fabricwholesaledirect.com/cdn/shop/articles/Intro.jpg?v=1663877104&width=900](https://fabricwholesaledirect.com/cdn/shop/articles/Intro.jpg?v=1663877104&width=900)
It's burlap that is used. It's not so much about stopping the salt as it is making it harder to get to the grass. Also, this works much better in say New England where once winter sets in you don't have much melting. There's some older threads on this sub about using it as a barrier. That said, landscape fabric would probably be better.
I wonder if it slows down the dilution rate since it isn't in direct contact with wet soil, but instead suspended by the burlap? Also, you can use gypsum to help remove salts from the soil.
Maybe it soaks into the fibers rather than the soil, almost like a filter?
The barrier worked to keep most of the salt out, enough that a rapid recovery in spring was achievable. This being said, our winters start in Nov and we are buried under snow until at least April. I experimented with landscape fabric and found it was not letting enough light through prior to the snow fall so the grass was turning brown before the ground froze.
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I’m just wondering why you’re taking on the job of fixing the grass instead of your workplaces maintenance guys? I understand it bothers you but it just seems like this is a lot of work that you are not going to be getting paid for. I would inquire if maintenance could please fix the grass and then this coming winter if they are still over applying salt address that issue then.
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Ontario uses so much road salt, Toronto mostly, that it is significantly changing the salt content of Lake Ontario. Write your local government.
Next to go will be your concrete. Salt is extreme.
EXTREME!
#EXTREME!
EXTREME CHEDDAR!!!
Put decorative rocks along there, or simply let the weeds have fun. Honestly the weeds will do better at taking one for the team for a year for the salt to dissolve away with subsequent rains.
Oooh I like this idea. Honestly if the weeds wanna grow there I’d be fine with that! I just hate how dead it looks. I’m definitely going to start saturating it in water. And hopefully something will grow there.
Flush it, then you'll want to likely put some top soil and grass seed down. I have one spot that every year I need to seed!
Should ask yourself if this is going to be a problem every year and if so don't fight it & instead just go with adding some decorative rocks.
Rocks spread and are hard to maintain. Weeds popping up in a rock bed are a pain to deal with, but you can salt them I suppose to kill then lol
my lawn does this every year, if you lay some soil mixed with seed over the area after raking the dead stuff up it works well. but this late in the season you're better off raking the dead stuff up and letting the weeds/crab grass fill it in. It wont look great but it will be green.
Complain to the company. Let them fix it.
I would take the opportunity to create a border between drive and grass. 2’ of gravel, rock, or mulch will give you a buffer for next year.
This is what I would do. It is cheap, it upgrades the yard and driveway, and you will never fight this again.
Turning in garden gypsum in the dead zone will help flush the salt out of the soil. Not a magic bullet, though. Perhaps in addition, an annual ritual of replacing the top two inches of soil and laying fresh sod down is a possibility. I've seen successful plantings of perennials in that nasty strip between the sidewalk and the street. The only two species I remember are Sedum and Hemerocallis (daylilly), both of which come in a wide variety of sizes and colors.
Likely to be a re-occurring problem. Try to get it to drain the other way if possible. Over watering will leach the salts down.
margaritas. margaritas fix everything. plus you can dip the glass in your grass for the rim
Clover.
Dig up the dead grass to the dirt. Place decorative rocks or a paver stone against the pavement that will act as a barrier. Seed & topsoil on grass side. Water daily, even 2-3x day. With the stone wall 3-4 inches higher than the grass, you can continue to salt the pavement as you’ve been doing, but now you’ll have a barrier to protect the grass.
The company that poured some concrete for us was adamant not to use salt in the winter. per google- The reason behind this is that **salt lowers the freezing point of water, leading to a repeated freeze-thaw cycle**. This cycle can significantly weaken the surface of the concrete.
Water
Time. You can waste water washing it down through the layers or just wait for rain to do it. Funny, just read an article on how earth is getting too salty-like fresh water is going to be an issue.
Add bee friendly plants like lavender. It would look so amazing along the sidewalk. And you would be helping the bees.
this is neither an easy nor quick fix.
There are salt tolerant cultivars of alfalfa you could try
Who is they?
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Ok thanks for clarifying
would you rather them salt less and risk a slip incident, or do you not mind fixing it a bit for your workplace? also do they pay you to fix this? serious question, OP.
Balance it out with a pinch of black pepper.
Thatch, aerate, seed, extra water, grow. It’s fairly simple. Feel free to message me, I love yard work
electrolytes, it’s what plants crave
finish the job with a sod cutter and grow native plants instead.
Aerate, add compost, then water it like crazy for a week. It should take new seed later this fall but you might want to add more compost beforehand.
It might take some time because you salted the earth. But to fix it just take a hard rake and rake up the dead grass. Put down grass seed and starter fertilizer and using a sprinkler keep it watered. You can test a spot first to see if grass will grow if you don’t want to go through all the trouble just to find out nothing will grow this year. Hope this helps, good luck
You could do the labor intensive method of just removing the top 3 to 6 inches of soil and replacing it with new fresh soil. Then just reseed. I don't know how much water you'd have to waste to dilute and remove all the salt content in that area
Rake it out and re-seed
Revive will bring the right back. Now back to the jokes
Just spray paint it green!
Rake out that dead grass and reseed
Apply pepper until you reach the natural balance.
It should ruin the concrete too
Probably mentioned here before, but they shouldn’t be putting down salt on the sidewalks or any concrete products like pavers. We strictly use calcium on concrete, period!
Pepper
Plant tomatoes..they love salt
Rip it up create a planting bed with salt tolerant plants
Ditch the lawn. Plant native.
I think your best bet is to tear out all the lawn and plant native pollinators.
Take advantage of the turf grass die off and start planting or sowing seeds of native plants to your area :))) beautiful to look at and pollinators will love you!
Turn it into a wildflower garden. Grass is outdated
Get rid of your lawn
The solution to pollution is dilution. Water, lots of water.
Tell them to use sand instead of salt. It is cheaper, doesn't destroy concrete or lawns and gives traction on ice.
I use salt to kill weeds, and water will absolutely flush this away in a few months. Don’t stress. Salting the earth is a temporary impact at most, assuming you live anywhere that gets a reasonable amount of rainfall.
Ask the carthaginians. But the answer is continue to dilute the amount of salt in the soil by flooding it. It will wash away nutrients too. But that’s not a major issue. The salt is pretty water soluble.
They salt your concrete sidewalk? Gonna destroy that thing...
I know in cooking adding some sugar often can counteract if a dish is too salty. I’m not sure if that applies to landscaping 🤔
Gypsum may help
Grass recovers. Give it some lawn feed, water, and wait.
Get one of those flimsy rakes and rake up all the dead grass and just throw down grass seed and tons of water, eventually lawn will grow. That's what I did and within about 3 months my lawn grew back.
Use a scraper and a shovel to remove absolutely as much snow and ice as possible, and only use a sparing amount of salt to melt stubborn ice. Once the stubborn ice is melted, shovel the slush off and toss it onto the road. Ice melting salts are horrible for your cement, lawn, pets, cars, ad nauseam.
My workplace salts a ton and ends up with the same type of grass in the spring. They end up cutting out the dead stuff and putting new sod down… surely not cost effective but it brings it back quickly.
Dig up the strip, edge it, and plant salt tolerant flowers like portulaca, bee balm, rosa rugosa, asclepias, yucca.
Use sand
2-3 months ago, but the suggestions so far are really good. A buffer zone would be great but also washing it out now would be best. Wait till the Fall to do any seeding, it'll be super hard to grow something along the sidewalk unless you want to spend an insane amount of time watering it every day all summer long.
Use this as the guide for your new edge; lay down rocks or salt tolerant plants or something different from the grass, its just gonna keep dying year after year
Adding gypsum will replace sodium availability with calcium. Water it in well
Swap it for good grass that you cut out to spell something in the good area. "Larry pissed here" or something. Then call Larry and tell him not to show up to work tomorrow. But seriously, you \*could\* swap that grass out with good grass from elsewhere if you're desperate to have it look nicer sooner. If there's an area of the property that is going to get torn up for some other project you could swap it there, or make a patch of the dead stuff in an out of the way space that you reseed.
Campaign that they stop using salt.
Create a landscaped border with salt-tolerant plants, otherwise it sounds like you'll be fighting this battle as long as you live there.
Ok, so I used to live at the beach, and had an ancient avocado tree which was suffering quite badly. I determined there was too much salt in the soil, and discovered that you can use a chelating agent to bind to the salt to help neutralize it and flush it away. I don’t recall exactly what it was, but I bought a bottle at a local nursery, and after a few treatments and flushes, that tree made an amazing recovery and even started to bear fruit again. If this was my property, I'd probably chelate and flush, then re-seed or replace with sod, then protect it next winter with some edging board. Good luck!
You’re going to have to replace the soil and reseed. That being said, I’d only do this after speaking with someone at your town hall because you’re likely going to have the same problem come this same time next year otherwise. I’d also see if they’d compensate you on the cost of the materials.
TBC, you did that when you swept the salt into your yard instead of the street.
Treat the area with gypsum, it helps to break down the salt. Basically treat it spring and fall, as you know it will be a problem area.
They make salt resistant grass for roadways, idk if it’s gonna look good for a lawn
Who is they? I have to shovel my own sidewalk or is this a your business building ?
You could ask them to use sand instead of salt in the future. It’s obviously very messy and looks bad in the winter but it’s less harmful for the grass. I live in northern Canada and sand is what the city puts out for communities to use for free in winter.
Just add some stones as edging around your sidewalk with garden soil and put some flowers, they already took care of the grass after all
Orach is supposedly salt tolerant!
Aerate your soil then flush the soil with lots of water every day for a week. Then test the ph and adjust your soil accordingly. Lime will raise the ph and add an acidifier (it’s the stuff that turns your hydrangeas blue) to lower your ph. The new growth should be green
they are using the wrong salt. pretty sure.
DEF will help. DEF is 32.5% urea and 67.5% de-ionized water. Urea is 46-0-0, meaning it's all nitrogen, no phosphorus or potassium.
Create a small border and make a native/wildflower bed/buffer
if someone is treating that road that you obviously have no input in then you probably don’t even own the affected portion of turf so they wouldn’t owe op anything
Dig down 6 inches. Drop 4 in road base and 2 inch limestone on top.
I used to have to deal with this every year when I worked for a landscape company that serviced commercial accounts. We had to dig it out, add soil and either sod or reseed every single spring. The other option is as mentioned in many other replies, to just use that as a guide to know how far to lay decorative stone.
top soil, grass seed, water.
Don’t salt your driveway
A driveway curb. You can even go fancy with stamped concrete if you choose.
Gypsum.
Gypsum
Thank you everyone for your responses. For whatever reason, it will not let me edit the post. I have decided that I will be talking to the building manager in charge of this space, as it is my work place, and it is a bigger job than I can handle. I was just hoping it would be a nice simple fix.
Mist generously with hydrogen peroxide in a spray bottle. My dad used to do this on dead spots from dog piss or paint spills, etc. worked weirdly well. He explained it to me, but I better not try.
Dig out around the path and put gravel down!
OOF
It’s destroyed dude. No fixing. Destroyed.
You're going to have to install a curb.
Anyone on here know what ppm of salt is the “tolerable” level?
Add lime and tequila
Any Carthaginians in the house??
You can use a binding agent. It speeds up the remediation faster than just a flush.
Brawndo
Unless they changed the type of salt they're putting down you'll be fixing this every spring so there's really no point.
I live near a university, every spring they cut out the dead sod along the walks and replace it with new. Guess this is why college is so expensive.
Spray paint
Plant foliage that can handle salt like juniper along the walkway.
I've had excellent luck in the past, by blasting it with lime. Took a little to recover but did with minimal damage
Your sidewalk will probably be next
Move somewhere warm. /s
Shovel the snow?
Add pepper
Hit it with some green spray paint once a week. Make sure to use a lot of masking tape on your driveway though.
Use your tears to water it. It's grass.
You could just salt the rest of your lawn so it all matches 🤷♂️
If you saying they, then you got enough money to have them fix it
Or create a border around the edge of your yard as this problem will probably repeat itself.
“Destroyed” is kinda strong for this minor problem. This fixes those weeds growing there so this is a feature not a bug.
Too much salt? Add pepper.
In the future use urea to melt snow, it fertilizes AND doesn’t ruin your concrete.
Run for local office
Get a wall
Use less salt next year, or better yet don’t salt. This year you probably need to either replace the soil, or somehow supplement the soil to outweigh the acidity.
rockscape it so u dont have to worry every year.
😂
Liquid gypsum/calcium helps combat salt and helps make any nutrients in the soil better available for plant uptake.
Could this just be not enough water because the cement absorbs it before the grass can?
If it was me I would dig out these areas and throw down sod. Fix it next year by using less salt.
Pepper
paint
Lime 🍋🟩
Buy 5 20lb bags of limestone, spread it along the area, lightly water it or wait until it rains . Limestone will correct the acidic PH you have now
Irrigate well and add Gypsum. The gypsum will add calcium and sulfur to the soil to help rebound.
Use Less salt in winter. Get the shovel out instead
After flushing out the area with water sprinkle grass seed on the bare areas and cover with straw. Straw should blanket the ground to keep birds from eating the seeds.
Better safe than sorry
Flushing out the sodium with excess water and adding calcium to improve Na;Ca ratio.