Oddball thing here- I once (way back in my youth) wondered if I could help my plants by spraying them with cooking spray- Pam for example for baking, - you know, horticultural oil exists so why not lol- and found the leaves fried nicely in hot sun. So I could imagine experimenting with spraying individual plants on hot summer mornings with cooking spray and letting the leafy part get fried up. Again, repeat for total kill. But seems very non toxic and biodegradeable.
Open to comments on this...