Ideally here in NWIA you should kill it with Roundup this spring, fallow it all summer, working it a few times to keep the weeds killed, and seed it next September. Maybe you don't want to wait that long, it's your call. You will have all summer to level the ground up and by september the soil will be a powder fine perfect seed bed. But the rain situation is a gamble. If you get good fall showers you will have the best stand you have ever seen. If you don't get fall showers, like what happened to me in the fall of 2011, the seed will lay there all winter and a half stand will come up in the spring. In the fall you are less likely to get the gully washer rains that can wash mini-trenches in the field and make it rough. I have usually had better luck with fall seeding. Here in NWIA the soil is cold and wet in the spring and the more it's worked the more compaction we have. Where the wheel tracks are there isn't enough loose soil to hold moisture for the seed between rains. In this neck of the woods the seed needs to be layed down fairly early in the spring so the grass can have a head start on the hot dry days of july-august. Just some ramblings off the top of my thick head. Jim
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