3 supers of honey not capped

[texjim]

The one hive that i have is a package from April. I checked it couple of weeks ago for the first time since July 2nd. I have three supers full of uncapped honey. I plan on leaving it for them. Will this be enough food for them for the winter? I do need to go back in a remove the queen excluder. The hive is strong. I live in N.E. Pa. I am fairly new to bee keeping. Thanks Jim

[BeeMaster2]

Jim,
You did mention how many/size of your brood boxes you have. I would recommend you make up one good deep super of capped honey to leave on the hive for winter. What you are really looking for for your area is about 70 to 100 pounds of honey for the hive for the winter. Too much area above the cluster can also be a problem which is why you want to reduce the hive down.
Jim

[texjim]

I have the 2 small 1 medium frame supers.  Thanks.

[capt44]

Here in Central Arkansas (Zone 7) I use 2 deep hive boxes full for overwintering hives.
I also put a candy board on around December 15th for emergency feed.
Here we have a few cold days then a few warm days which will cause the bees to move around more causing them to eat more.
A person can get by with a deep and medium or 3 medium boxes full here.
In your area I would want at least 2 deeps or 3 medium boxes full of stores and a candy board on top.
Here in Arkansas I go by the population of bees in the hive going into winter.
If the population is small I merge them with another hive.
My way of thinking is I'd rather have 1 live hive in the spring that I could split rather than have 2 dead hives.
Remember the bees aren't heating the whole hive, they are just heating the cluster.
The larger the cluster the better they can heat it.
I've been merging bees now for a couple of weeks and will thru October.
I built 30 candy boards for some of my hives.
All of my hives will have candy boards.
As far as checking hives for the varroa mites that should have been done in Mid to later part of August and if necessary treated in September.
I would go ahead and do a sugar roll test and see where the bees stand.
If you have a large count of mites I'd go ahead and treat.
I personally have had very good results using Mite-a-way Strips (Formic Acid) but there are different things on the market you can use if needed.
Good Luck!