Table 41 . Nursery, Greenhouse, Floriculture, Sod, Mushrooms, Vegetable Seeds, and Propagative Materials 
Grown for Sale: 2012 and 2007 
[For meaning of abbreviations and symbols, see introductory text.] 
Crops 
Under glass or other protection 
In the open 
Value of sales 
Farms 
Square feet 
Farms 
Acres 
Farms 
Dollars 
Aquatic plants 
2012 
11 
35,780 
17 
13 
21 
639,455 
2007 
14 
14,000 
10 
8 
20 
349,314 
Bulbs, corms, rhizomes, and tubers-dry 
2012 
6 
11,500 
21 
15 
26 
135,600 
2007 
11 
28,354 
12 
14 
23 
381,307 
Cuttings, seedlings, liners, and plugs 
(see text) 
2012 
26 
269,945 
14 
11 
36 
3,800,746 
2007 
30 
413,396 
6 
6 
33 
3,420,018 
Floriculture crops - 
bedding/garden plants, cut flowers and 
cut florist greens, foliage plants, potted 
flowering plants, and other floriculture and 
bedding crops, total 
2012 
760 
24,495,546 
403 
735 
962 
228,197,229 
2007 
950 
24,431,023 
499 
903 
1,226 
247,179,189 
Bedding/garden plants 
2012 
663 
18,622,274 
265 
458 
784 
181,469,300 
2007 
850 
19,225,582 
354 
632 
1,041 
196,346,853 
Cut flowers and cut florist greens 
2012 
40 
199,626 
86 
119 
105 
2,300,021 
2007 
45 
266,748 
123 
158 
146 
3,947,207 
Foliage plants, indoor 
2012 
63 
940,978 
7 
2 
66 
8,139,840 
2007 
48 
340,071 
11 
13 
58 
8,056,922 
Potted flowering plants 
2012 
169 
4,673,311 
59 
127 
213 
35,770,566 
2007 
248 
4,520,582 
73 
100 
299 
38,237,407 
Other floriculture and bedding crops 
2012 
25 
59,357 
27 
30 
48 
517,502 
2007 
5 
78,040 
- 
- 
5 
590,800 
Flower seeds 
2012 
10 
37,155 
4 
(D) 
14 
(D) 
2007 
10 
1 1 ,350 
5 
8 
15 
42,660 
Greenhouse fruits and berries (see text) 
2012 
18 
33,899 
(X) 
(X) 
18 
88,012 
2007 
7 
5,812 
(X) 
(X) 
7 
8,214 
Total greenhouse vegetables and 
fresh cut herbs (see text) 
2012 
292 
1,711,580 
(X) 
(X) 
290 
10,500,967 
2007 
183 
625,693 
(X) 
(X) 
183 
4,021,654 
2012 farms by area: 
1 to 999 square feet 
72 
28,682 
(X) 
(X) 
72 
148,205 
1 ,000 to 1 ,999 square feet 
43 
65,191 
(X) 
(X) 
41 
237,527 
2,000 to 2,999 square feet 
50 
122,779 
(X) 
(X) 
50 
475,906 
3,000 to 3,999 square feet 
42 
138,643 
(X) 
(X) 
42 
614,531 
4,000 to 5,999 square feet 
33 
159,576 
(X) 
(X) 
33 
1,109,166 
6,000 to 9,999 square feet 
32 
241,919 
(X) 
(X) 
32 
(D) 
1 0,000 or more square feet 
20 
954,790 
(X) 
(X) 
20 
(D) 
10,000 to 19,999 square feet 
13 
165,780 
(X) 
(X) 
13 
569,702 
20,000 to 39,999 square feet 
6 
(D) 
(X) 
(X) 
6 
428,249 
40,000 or more square feet 
1 
(D) 
(X) 
(X) 
1 
(D) 
Greenhouse tomatoes 
2012 
213 
673,672 
(X) 
(X) 
211 
3,184,800 
2007 
136 
357,958 
(X) 
(X) 
136 
2,550,384 
Other greenhouse vegetables and 
fresh cut herbs (see text) 
2012 
134 
1 ,037,908 
(X) 
(X) 
134 
7,316,167 
2007 
77 
267,735 
(X) 
(X) 
77 
1,471,270 
Mushroom spawn (see text) 
2012 
2 
(X) 
(X) 
(X) 
2 
(D) 
2007 
- 
(X) 
(X) 
(X) 
- 
- 
Mushrooms 
2012 
18 
24,430 
(X) 
(X) 
18 
732,020 
2007 
7 
19,034 
(X) 
(X) 
7 
225,240 
Nursery stock crops (see text) 
2012 
133 
10,319,147 
616 
16,168 
656 
181,503,351 
2007 ^ 
130 
10,271,927 
823 
21,968 
873 
173,843,270 
Sod harvested 
2012 
(X) 
(X) 
34 
3,743 
34 
11,864,110 
2007 
(X) 
(X) 
40 
3,777 
40 
14,557,594 
2012 farms by area: 
0 to 14.9 acres 
(X) 
(X) 
11 
36 
11 
91,955 
1 5.0 to 49.9 acres 
(X) 
(X) 
7 
157 
7 
393,500 
50.0 to 99.9 acres 
(X) 
(X) 
8 
615 
8 
2,424,083 
1 00.0 to 249.9 acres 
(X) 
(X) 
3 
331 
3 
1,071,782 
250.0 to 399.9 acres 
(X) 
(X) 
2 
(D) 
2 
(D) 
400.0 to 749.9 acres 
(X) 
(X) 
2 
(D) 
2 
(D) 
750.0 acres or more 
(X) 
(X) 
1 
(D) 
1 
(D) 
Tobacco transplants 
2012 
3 
(D) 
- 
- 
3 
(D) 
2007 
15 
39,880 
- 
- 
15 
127,080 
Vegetable seeds 
2012 
21 
65,379 
13 
67 
32 
250,610 
2007 
27 
25,460 
22 
20 
46 
74,562 
Vegetable transplants 
2012 
44 
181,438 
26 
31 
62 
519,979 
2007 
52 
215,252 
15 
10 
61 
905,125 
' 2007 data do not include Other nursery stock. 
34 Ohio 
2012 Census of Agriculture - State Data 
USDA, National Agricultural Statistics Service 
