blueberry bush over grown with a vine......and off shoots?

hi,
we have a lone blueberry bush, that we discovered after moving into this house last summer, with a vine type plant growing all over it. Actually there are two different types.......
I cut most if not all of it down before spring and it's overgrown the bush already.
I didn't know if it was helping or not.........from birds, sun, etc.....
Right now the berries are starting to turn from green to a rosy purple and I don't know if I should cut it again.
Does anyone know where or how I can find out what to do with this blueberry bush? Leave it, keep pruning it, try to get it out? (will it help keep birds off.......it seems to already, but maybe they wait until the fruit is blue....)
I got a few roots out of the vine and it has really big bulb roots!!

Also, I don't know how to prune it and use all the little shoots that have grown all around it. We've read a lot of books, but maybe someone could recommend something a little simpler to understand or explain it to us?

thank you,
amanda

Let the fruit rippen on the blue berries, then prune or re shape the plant. Hope you beat the birds. The vine with the bulbs are apain and get thorny. I have heard them called tater vines and dug up a lot of them two days ago. I used a trenching shove cause i have one. A trenching shovel is used to dug a narrow trench for irrigation, ect. They are great for small plant digout especally in close quarters. My neighbors borrow mine all the time. Just cutting off the vine just seeems to make it grow faster and thicker the next time which is soon. Dig out the rascals. A regular shovel works fine but will also disturb more of the roots on the keeper plant. The other vine could be any thing from creeping virginia too wild grape vine. Digout the root system best ya can.

You might try making a frame around the blueberry bush to protect it from birds. You can make a square with some wood set up vertically, and place chicken wire around it and on top. Just tie the pieces together with nylon string.

I also have some of the vines that you talked about with the huge bulbs.
Make sure you dig out the whole bulb system. Might be the dreaded kudjo.
I'd also wait until the blueberry bush finishes fruiting then attack the invasive vine.

Good luck

Paul

thanks : )
(I grew up near pensacola....and went to college in gainesville for a while :) )

as far as birds, with these vines the only ones we have really had to fend off are the chickens we started to let free range............just a little shooing off at first, but now they have a nice bush to nest under now......

we haven't done much yet, we take our toddler out to pick the ripe berries......it just takes some moving of vines for some of them........
i looked up kudjo a while back and don't think any of them are that..............there are at least 3 different "other" plants...........

thanks again.....
anyone else have tips for moving these offshoots??