Might not like this but here is what I would do:

Feed your lawn a monthly blast of corn meal/cracked corn at 20lbs/1000sqft. 3 weeks before you would do a fall seeding dump 20lbs/1000sqft of alfalfa pellets. 5 days before you would do a fall seeding, blast the whole yard with roundup (prefer sunny day). Mow the next day and then roundup again 2 days later. Might not be popular here but I'm trying to make sure all your wild stuff is really dead. 2 days after that give the now dead yard a full seeding of grass that does well in your area. If you want to break your back, apply 1/8" compost to the whole area or hit it with compost tea. Now your grass has a head start to grow without too much competition from weeds and should be ready to go in the spring and should take over dead grasses as they decay (hint compost microbes). The cracked corn bit is my way of getting organic matter into your soil in the meantime without being too expensive or overly stimulant. Finish off with an application of 15-20lb/1000sqft soybean meal late in the season so the nutrients from the decomposing soybean will pick up as early as the weather allows in the spring.

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that sounds pretty good. that sounds pretty good. would you aerate before the corn meal treatment to keep it from just washing away in a rain or is that not much of a worry?

also, when you say a "monthly blash of corn meal/cracked corn...3 weeks before fall seeding," should the corn meal be a one-time application or do you mean that i should continue to apply monthly afterwards as well? how long? certainly not through the winter...?

I'm saying a monthly app of corn meal every month starting now as an organic supplement for your soil to give it something to eat and to develop a good fungal web and start making it a nice vacation spot for worms/arthropods/bacteria/fungi/protozoa. I assume the soil is possibly in poor to moderate condition and this is the cheapest grain I can think of to put on. You could aerate if you want. The alfalfa would be my preference to apply 3 weeks before you seed to provide good and diverse nutrients to help your seed along. 3 weeks would be the 'rule-of-thumb' time frame during warm seasonal weather to break down your average corn/soybean/alfalfa grain into nutrients that your new plants can start to use. After your grass starts growing in the fall, give it a "winterizer" dose of soybean meal that will be ready to feed your lawn on nature's clock when the spring warmup comes.

In the meantime I would let whatever you have growing on your lawn grow tall to minimize your watering and to keep the birds from finding your grains. Example: my wet hair (short cut) dries within a half hour or so compared to my wife's hair (long) that can take all day if she doesn't dry it because her hair near the scalp is never exposed to significant airflow. Not to mention if you use the plant to shade the soil it will not dry out as quick from intense sunshine. Don't bother bagging the clippings anymore either, you want whatever that comes out of your soil to recycle itself.

This is just my opinion and if anyone has any problems with it, please chime in!