Well, let us look at some of the Hebrew meanings of the words. Eden is a term that gives the idea of fertility. The garden was therefore a very fertil place, and God appears to have created Adam to be in the role of a farmer (abeit an easy task, due to it's richness.
NOw, when talking about the tree of knowledge of good and evil, the translation is a bit unclear about 'good' and 'evil'. It also could be (in the hebrew), good and bad, or "weal and woe". It can be view as two polar opposites to create a whole. (something like heaven and earth).
The knoweldge of Good and evil offers both pleasure and pain, higher knowledge, and the pain that comes with the need to make a moral choice.
The knowlege of Good and Evil does not say that good and evil were not in the world before, it is just that man was ignorant of it. \\
Indeed, God must have know what would happen, and therefore, it must have been planed from the begining. It is by the abilty to be able to choose between good and bad that allows man to be able to choose good, and become more sanctified, and be closer to god, rather than live a more mundane life. It is that which seperartes man from the beasts (well, according to one Jewish interpretation).
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