Beans, beans, beans!

I swear, when I am planning my beds in the winter (and the spring, and the summer, and the fall) I feel panicked, panicked, that I can't possibly have enough space in this bed for that crop or that bed for this crop. It always seems there will not be enough to put up, to eat, to some day reach that elusive goal of not buying vegetables I can grow at home. And then comes August. I haven't exhausted my taste for green beans yet, but let's say it is strained at the moment. Luckily I've barely started freezing. Since I didn't make it out to pick all week, there are a lot of overgrown beans on the vine, which got me wondering if I could just let them dry and use them as soup beans. According to this great discussion, I can. Can't wait to find out if they are any good, especially since the beans I've tried to grow for drying have so far not done well.