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 
7 
12,400 
8 
6 
11 
154,300 
2007 
11 
29,025 
12 
10 
17 
462,707 
Bulbs, corms, rhizomes, and tubers-dry 
2012 
1 
(D) 
12 
21 
13 
82,500 
2007 
7 
19,509 
30 
39 
35 
410,172 
Cuttings, seedlings, liners, and plugs 
(see text) 
2012 
35 
366,683 
23 
422 
47 
1,675,851 
2007 
56 
383,952 
42 
143 
73 
3,550,968 
Floriculture crops - 
bedding/garden plants, cut flowers and 
cut florist greens, foliage plants, potted 
flowering plants, and other floriculture and 
bedding crops, total 
2012 
390 
8,911,547 
204 
307 
489 
76,619,834 
2007 
472 
10,608,389 
257 
620 
602 
75,347,766 
Bedding/garden plants 
2012 
348 
5,394,142 
133 
196 
416 
60,111,169 
2007 
402 
6,890,009 
170 
502 
481 
55,916,584 
Cut flowers and cut florist greens 
2012 
13 
26,944 
37 
32 
46 
(D) 
2007 
18 
151,400 
44 
54 
56 
706,359 
Foliage plants, indoor 
2012 
45 
607,929 
11 
9 
55 
(D) 
2007 
50 
717,914 
7 
7 
55 
5,736,391 
Potted flowering plants 
2012 
75 
2,825,642 
40 
67 
107 
9,604,334 
2007 
135 
2,769,386 
49 
56 
168 
12,735,945 
Other floriculture and bedding crops 
2012 
17 
56,890 
8 
3 
22 
208,425 
2007 
8 
79,680 
4 
1 
9 
252,487 
Flower seeds 
2012 
- 
- 
1 
(D) 
1 
(D) 
2007 
10 
6,562 
4 
4 
14 
21,726 
Greenhouse fruits and berries (see text) 
2012 
6 
12,959 
(X) 
(X) 
6 
(D) 
2007 
3 
(D) 
(X) 
(X) 
3 
(D) 
Total greenhouse vegetables and 
fresh cut herbs (see text) 
2012 
114 
(D) 
(X) 
(X) 
114 
6,001,429 
2007 
101 
613,262 
(X) 
(X) 
100 
2,485,354 
2012 farms by area: 
1 to 999 square feet 
36 
(D) 
(X) 
(X) 
36 
(D) 
1 ,000 to 1 ,999 square feet 
17 
24,850 
(X) 
(X) 
17 
75,729 
2,000 to 2,999 square feet 
20 
43,834 
(X) 
(X) 
20 
97,396 
3,000 to 3,999 square feet 
8 
25,740 
(X) 
(X) 
8 
148,460 
4,000 to 5,999 square feet 
2 
(D) 
(X) 
(X) 
2 
(D) 
6,000 to 9,999 square feet 
12 
88,946 
(X) 
(X) 
12 
504,799 
1 0,000 or more square feet 
19 
(D) 
(X) 
(X) 
19 
5,065,919 
10,000 to 19,999 square feet 
6 
84,285 
(X) 
(X) 
6 
236,699 
20,000 to 39,999 square feet 
4 
108,408 
(X) 
(X) 
4 
427,590 
40,000 or more square feet 
9 
(D) 
(X) 
(X) 
9 
4,401,630 
Greenhouse tomatoes 
2012 
96 
1,114,703 
(X) 
(X) 
96 
4,605,792 
2007 
78 
429,897 
(X) 
(X) 
78 
1,797,772 
Other greenhouse vegetables and 
fresh cut herbs (see text) 
2012 
52 
(D) 
(X) 
(X) 
52 
1,395,637 
2007 
36 
183,365 
(X) 
(X) 
35 
687,582 
Mushroom spawn (see text) 
2012 
1 
(X) 
(X) 
(X) 
1 
(D) 
2007 
- 
(X) 
(X) 
(X) 
- 
- 
Mushrooms 
2012 
14 
(D) 
(X) 
(X) 
14 
(D) 
2007 
5 
(D) 
(X) 
(X) 
5 
(D) 
Nursery stock crops (see text) 
2012 
127 
2,898,248 
541 
27,361 
570 
132,067,964 
2007 1 
210 
4,599,100 
708 
33,485 
790 
177,221,588 
Sod harvested 
2012 
(X) 
(X) 
41 
10,021 
41 
(D) 
2007 
(X) 
(X) 
52 
11,329 
52 
(D) 
2012 farms by area: 
0 to 14.9 acres 
(X) 
(X) 
6 
10 
6 
22,450 
15.0 to 49.9 acres 
(X) 
(X) 
7 
167 
7 
406,923 
50.0 to 99.9 acres 
(X) 
(X) 
5 
351 
5 
(D) 
100.0 to 249.9 acres 
(X) 
(X) 
11 
1,617 
11 
6,213,840 
250.0 to 399.9 acres 
(X) 
(X) 
3 
968 
3 
2,506,409 
400.0 to 749.9 acres 
(X) 
(X) 
6 
3,208 
6 
8,357,352 
750.0 acres or more 
(X) 
(X) 
3 
3,700 
3 
8,500,000 
Tobacco transplants 
2012 
38 
521,460 
- 
- 
38 
1,128,334 
2007 
51 
426,028 
- 
- 
51 
1,131,019 
Vegetable seeds 
2012 
4 
630 
6 
2 
10 
7,549 
2007 
18 
9,984 
3 
(D) 
21 
8,442 
Vegetable transplants 
2012 
13 
99,570 
2 
(D) 
13 
821,983 
2007 
23 
31,726 
8 
(D) 
28 
(D) 
1 2007 data do not include Other nursery stock. 
34 Tennessee 
2012 Census of Agriculture - State Data 
USDA, National Agricultural Statistics Service 
