Can I use coffee grounds with dogs around?

Every summer I get together with my family to pick blueberries from our backyard. I've been trying to be more environmentally friendly lately, so I've decided to use my coffee grounds to fertilize the plants next year.

There's a problem, though. We own two dogs and we sometimes let them eat the berries off the plant/ground. Apparently coffee grounds are really toxic to dogs. Is there any chance my dogs could ingest the coffee ground fertilizer? I was thinking of spraying some Ropel on the ground and plants just in case, but I'd like to know if this could be a serious problem.

Thanks!

 

Coffee grounds are ph neutral (the acid in the coffee has been disolved and drunk!) so they are ok for your blueberries though apart from adding a bit of nitrogen will not work any miracles as far as the crop goes.

I can't comment about the dog situation, but if you rake the grounds well into the soil I'd guess that would keep your dogs safe.

 

I have never heard of coffee grounds used as fertilizer .... I have read that some people use it as a snail/slug deterrent

but saying that, I'm still fairly new to gardening, suppose we learn new things daily

 

Just copy/pasted from internet--the below:

Coffee and gardening

Every day across America, Asia and Europe, millions of pots of coffee and tea are brewed, and the millions of pounds of wet grounds, filters and bags thrown in the trash. This is both wasteful and foolish.
Coffee by-products can be used in the garden and farm as follows:

• Sprinkle used grounds around plants before rain or watering, for a slow-release nitrogen.
• Add to compost piles to increase nitrogen balance. Coffee filters and tea bags break down rapidly during composting.
• Dilute with water for a gentle, fast-acting liquid fertilizer. Use about a half-pound can of wet grounds in a five-gallon bucket of water; let sit outdoors to achieve ambient temperature.
• Mix into soil for houseplants or new vegetable beds.
• Encircle the base of the plant with a coffee and eggshell barrier to repel pests.
• If you are into vermi-posting, feed a little bit to your worms

And it will do no harm for the dogs. Only if they step their paws in it and track it into the house.