Lemon Basil Seeds???

[AK110682]

Have any of you ever grown Lemon Basil? I grew genovese basil last year... and this year I decided to also try some Lemon Basil.

Tonight, I pulled out a few jiffy pellets and started planting some seeds..... As soon as the seeds touched water they immediately started to swell up, growing bigger and bigger right before my eyes... turning from black to a "blueberry" like color. Is this normal? After a few mins of sitting on the pellet, I touched one and it just turned to mush. They look like some kind of eggs..... yuck, I hope they aren't really eggs of some sort.

They came from Wintersown, in a new, unopened package... packed for '07. Would seeds that are only 2 years old turn to mush when they touched water?

I will try to get some pictures on here in the next couple days or so.....

What do ya'll think?

-Amber