Growing city gardens

TOMATOES, veggies and herbs are sprouting from Berlin parks, a shopping mall rooftop and even a former airfield in community gardens that pioneer farmers say add green spice to urban life.

Perhaps the best-known Berlin city gardens are on the former Tempelhof Airport, almost the size of New York’s Central Park, which hails from the Nazi era. In the shadows of its grand terminals, between cracked runways and disused towers, the green-fingered now lovingly tend to organic rucola, chilli peppers and bean sprouts grown in elevated wooden crates.